[SWLUG] Mandriva and Networking (perhaps not with Samba)

[Stephen]

Dear All

I now have Mandriva 2007 on the PC - duel booting with XP and Mandriva 
2006 on the laptop (not duel boot).

When the Dell has Mandriva booted I do not know what I have to do to see 
each others file systems.  Normally I use SAMBA, which is present on 
both to see Windows <---> Linux.  But this is Linux <----> Linux.

I used Konqueror to look in Services > LAN browser but there was nothing 
there.  Not on either machine.

When I started SAMBA, the Dell could see the IP of the laptop but the 
laptop cold not see the IP of the Dell.  Both could see the networked 
(ethernet) printer.  When I used SAMBA on the Dell to try and mount what 
I think was the laptop I got a message that the share could not be 
mounted.  (4379: tree connect failed: ERRDOS -ERRnosuchshare (You 
specified an invalid share name)). It was then that I realised I did not 
understand what "Shares" are.

I turned the firewall off both off as well.

Any advice appreciated

Stephen