Linux in a Windows Network

[MstrBob]

I've been putting it off for a while now, and this is the last thing holding me back from using Linux almost always. I have a home network, using a Linksys router. My internet goes into this router, which then distributes it to the computers in the network. It's a wireless network, except my computer which runs an ethernet cable into the router. Now, I've got Internet Access in Linux (using it to write this post), and I can access the router. My problem is, I need to be able to access my Windows network. I need to be able to interact with Windows computers on this windows network.

Now, from what I can gather, Samba is used for this. I'm running Suse 9.2, and Samba is, I believe already installed as I can see it in YaST to configure. But each time I find instructions for using Samba, it's to do something different, on a different Linux flavor, doing it in a totally different way. I just want to be able to interact with Windows computers on my home network.

[David Harrison]

If I remember rightly you can just type in smb://computer-name into the konqueror address bar, or you can use the IP too.

[MstrBob]

Any way I can view all the computers currently on the network?

[David Harrison]

I think there must be because I did it. Of course, I tried it on a network with just two PC's on it. Try just smb://

[PhillMc]

Here ya go Bob,

From what I have read there is a network browser for KDE which uses Samba,

Go here http://us3.samba.org/samba/GUI/

Try the SMB4k

If all else fails I believe you can browse the network using WINE (the Windows Emulator, but not an emulator, lol).

I'm gonna do more research to see if there is an easer way; I know it can be a pain installing anything on Linux machines, sometimes even with RPG's.

Hope this helps.

[PhillMc]

I found something that may prove to be helpful,

Check this out:
http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-rg-en-4/s1-samba-network-browsing.html