"jim" <jim@home.net> wrote in message
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> "goarilla" <kevin.paulus@skynet.remove-this.be> wrote in message


>> smbclient -L host (list shares)
>> nmblookup -SM--workgroup <YOUR-WORKGROUP> (list master browser)
>> mount -t smbfs -o user="usernam",password="password" \\host\share /mnt/
>> point (mounts windows share if you can mount it as cifs)
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> OK, let's try this again....and this time pay attention......

That is the wrong attitude!

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> There are # of XP machines all connected to one router. This is called a
> peer to peer network. There is no server.

There is a "server", its the machine providing the share.
M$ may call it something else but in this context it is a server.

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> The XP machines share folders that ARE NOT PASSWORD PROTECTED.
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> The Linux user does not know the names of all PCs on the p2p network, nor
> does he know the names of all of the shares.

What's P2P got to do with your previous posts?