FOCUS: ==SAMBA== PART A: ===Connecting to a Linux SMB Server (Matrix) from a Windows Client (Windows 7)===*Power up a Windows 7 system in the lab and login using your LEARN username and password.*You should see an icon of Tux, the Linux penguin, on your desktop. Double-click it to login to your Matrix account. A window of your Matrix home directory should open.*Use the mouse to drag and drop files to and from your Matrix account and your Windows 7 lab machine.*Once you are satisfied that you can easily move files to/from your Matrix account power off the PC.*Set the HD selector switch to boot from your Fedora 13 Linux drive and power on the PC.PART B: ===Connecting to a Linux SMB Server (Matrix) from a Linux Client (Fedora 13)===

*Switch to root and ensure you are using the default Fedora 13 firewall.*As root, ensure Samba is installed. Use these two commands: "yum install samba" and "yum install samba-client"NOTE: **Fedora encrypts passwords when authenticating SMB connections. Unfortunately Windows clients (here at Seneca) insist on passwords being sent in plain text. For this reason Matrix SMB is set to use plain text passwords. To change Fedora to use plain text passwords switch to root and edit the /etc/samba/smb.conf file and immediately after the [global] section header insert these two lines: