Samba with Windows XP client

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Tuesday 03 November 2009 13:56:03 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Bengt-Erik Soderstrom wrote:
> > There is, perhaps, an easier way:
> > Use the Gnome desktop. Click Places in the menu. Click Network. Find
> > your Windows computer. <Windows-Network> then Resource <MSHome> then the
> > computer name <MyComputer> and voila: You have access to all the files
> > you have defined to be shared on your Windows computer! Of course,
> > resource name and computer name will most certainly be different for you.
> 
> Is there a KDE equivalent?

Open Dolphin, choose menu View -> Panels -> Places (or press F9). A "places" 
panel opens up on the left side of the window. From there, browse Network -> 
Samba Shares -> your workgroup -> your Windows machine.

It should Just Work. At least it does for me.

HTH, :-)
Marko