Sharing files between Vista/XP and Ubuntu?

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robincanaday
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Sharing files between Vista/XP and Ubuntu?

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I just got a new laptop with Vista, so I don't really need my old desktop to be a Windows machine. I want to set it up to serve my files over my home network as an Ubuntu machine; how do I set up my Ubuntu machine so that the XP and Vista machines in the house can read/write files to HDs on the Ubuntu machine? I just want a simple solution.

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Re: Sharing files between Vista/XP and Ubuntu?

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There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't
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Re: Sharing files between Vista/XP and Ubuntu?

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samba is what you need if you want the ubuntu machine to show up in your windows network.
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