“On a network of just Windows machines, connecting to file
shares is a fairly easy process: just click on the ‘My Network’ or
‘Network Neighborhood’ icon, click on a nearby server or
workstation with a file share, and away you go.“However, on a network of Linux and Windows machines, connecting
a Linux box to a Windows server can still require some manual
configuration to get file sharing between the two operating systems
working just the way you want it to…”
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