Accessing Windows Resources from a Linux Desktop
You're one of the lucky ones. Despite incredible pressures, you've somehow managed to convince your boss to let you run Linux on your workstations instead of Windows. It could be that you've already saved your organization tens of thousands of dollars by convincing them to upgrade to OpenOffice.org instead of the latest Microsoft Office, and now the company is willing to explore other possibilities. However, you are still going to have to deal with the Windows workgroup or domain and the appropriate shared files and printers.
It used to be called the network neighborhood. On Windows XP machines, it's called network places. You may now be running a Linux desktop, but there are many important files shared from the XP machine over in accounting, files that are shared in the network neighborhood. Files you need to work with. Ironically, some of those Windows file servers may in fact be Linux servers running Samba, seamlessly providing network drives to Windows desktops inside your company.
Samba on Linux does a great job of providing the same file and printer sharing that Windows servers used to and sometimes still do provide, so it should not be surprising that Samba client software tends to come as part of the standard installation on most modern Linux distributions. This means you can connect to a Windows share on the network using the smbclient program, like this:
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