Adding a unix computer to a windows workgroup

I've got a unix (freebsd) computer on my lan. I can ping to and from it, ftp to and from it, access the webserver and use ICS. I've even added a couple of servernames for the unix's local ip to my hosts file on the windows box that has the shared dialup connection.

One thing I haven't been able to do though is have the unix computer become a visible part of the windows network. Can't find it on with "find computer" either. Is this to be expected? Or is there a way to have the computer show up?

Marty

 

Have you checked into Samba ? I had a Linux box and a win98SE box that could share a dail-up connection, ping each other but they were not visible to each other I used Samba on the linux box and got them to see each other.

 

Samba, tried and failed; will have to try again sometime. I'm wondering though why it's so hard to just do this. Guess there's much more going on behind the scenes than is easy to see.

 

Samba's for sure the way to go if you want the windows PCs to see the linux box as if it were a windows box.

You can use other methods like telnet or ftp without needing Samba but it isn't nearly as nice.

 

It might be easier to configure Samba through the SWAT web interface. It configures the smb.conf file for you and is pretty easy to follow. You can also scan sourceforge for other applications that help you configure the Samba configuration file.