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✓ Your Windows network shares should appear under the Samba Shares
folder (Samba isn’t just a dance; it’s the software Linux uses to talk to
Windows networks — see Chapter 21).
If you can’t see the Windows shared folders on your network, check
whether your Linux distribution has a firewall enabled. By default,
Fedora enables a firewall to block Samba connections; Ubuntu doesn’t.
(See Chapter 8 for more about these idiosyncrasies.)
Burning Data CDs and DVDs
A CD and DVD burner is a great way to make data backups (especially if the
disc is rewritable), save and share your digital photos, put together multimedia
mementos or scrapbooks, and more. Many tools are available that allow
you to burn CDs under Linux; here’s a quick look at a few of them.
The K3b package
By far the most popular CD and DVD burner used in the KDE environment
is K3b. Unfortunately, it’s not installed by default in Fedora. If you don’t
have it installed yet, see Chapter 16 for how to do so — the specific packages
you want are k3b and k3b-extras. To open the K3b file, choose
Applications➪Multimedia➪CD and DVD Burning. The window shown in
Figure 7-10 opens.
Figure 7-10:
The K3b CD
and DVD
Kreator.