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I want to access my directories where I have to store my webpages as a shared directory on another computer in my LAN using my IP-address.
How do I do that?
Usually I look for the other computer using the explorer in Windows and typing the internal IP-address...

 

I don't know if Samba is already installed and configured.
Searching for 'samba' in Windows' Search for computer section does not give any result.
If it is not installed yet, what do I have to do to install it?

 

Samba will be on your linux machine not windows.

To see if it's installed either type... which Samba ...or... ps -ef | grep smbd

 

when I type:
which Samba
the system gives the prompt again and no other information.
When I type:
ps -ef | grep smbd
the system replies:
root 5672 5653 0 14:03 pts/0 00:00:00 grep smbd
What does this mean?

If it is not installed yet, do I have to do special actions to install and configure it?

 

My bad.. try whereis samba

 

Looks to me like Samba is not installed yet. Which Linux distribution do you use?

 

I thought the same thing at first, the second command checks to see if it's running. But I think it's odd the first command just returns to the prompt without any reply at all. You'll usually get that no samba was found in a list of directories. That's why I changed to whereis samba.

 

Code:

which <command>

only spits output when it finds somthing. Otherwise it stays silent

 

That's my learning curve again. Learn something new every day.

 

I am using OpenSuSE 10.2

 

Run

Code:

yast

and check if Samba is installed.
What's the output of

Code:

which [B][COLOR="Red"]s[/COLOR][/B]amba

(not

Code:

which [B][COLOR="Red"]S[/COLOR][/B]amba

)?

 

Code:

which samba

gives no reply. Only the prompt...

I think installing Samba server is now ok.
But how to share the directories to use in my Windows?