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Hi I am a new bee to Linux in general. Please accept my apologies if the question is not appropriate. I have a LAN with 2 computers: One is CentOS and one is Windows XP. I am trying to transfer file between 2 computers using LAN. Can you please tell me how to do it? I have tried Samba from the Applications menu. Add a directory in there. Set it to Read only and Allow access to everyone. I

...as root, > 1. create a mountpoint for the Windows directory, e.g. /mnt/shared, > make it owned by yourself, group 'users' (chown ... chgrp as root) > 2. create a credentials file /home/yourname/.cred for your Windows login, > containing text (fill in correct text!) > username=yourwindowsloginname > password=windowspassword > > 3. add the following line (it's all one line) to the end of > the text file /etc/fstab (you'll need to be root): > //<Windows IP address>/shared /mnt/shared smb > rw,credentials=/home/yourname/.cred,gid=users,fmask=777,dmask=777 >...