<p>So here’s my situation: I brought with me a linux tower that has all my music on it. When I got here I bought this snazzy laptop that the engineering dep’t recommended(toshiba tecra m9). I’ve never used windows before and even though vista is lousy, I’m impressed by this whole network filesharing business. </p>
<p>So I went ahead and set up a samba server on my linux tower. My vista laptop fails to see the shared folders on my linux tower, however, the guy down the hall from me, who I think is also on vista, is able to see the shares, login and download from my samba server.</p>
<p>My question is, what do I have to do to get windows to acknowledge my smb shares? I’ve read that vista has trouble with shared network folders that aren’t hosted on a windows machine. is this true? Is the mcgill network somehow preventing me from accessing the smb server?</p>
<p>Any help is appreciated, thanks!</p>
<p>ps, the linux tower is connected with an ethernet cable and my laptop(and the laptop of the guy down the hall) is wireless.</p>