Samba and NFS need some explanations.
Ivan Evstegneev
bravo_elf at gmail.ru
Mon Apr 10 19:36:08 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 16:22 -0400, Debbie Deutsch wrote:
> Ivan Evstegneev wrote:
> > Hi everyone!!!
> >
> > The problem is that I still can't understand when do I need to use SAMBA
> > and NFS?
> >
> > For example: I have two computers at home one is PC and it directly
> > connects to the Internet and the second one is laptop that connects via
> > the PC, it can be called the standard scheme for most of the people I
> > guess. On my PC Win XP is installed and the laptop has FC5 on it.
> > So now I want to enable file sharing between those two computers. The
> > question is: how do I need to configure all this stuff? I mean... on
> > which computer do I need install samba, the PC or laptop or both of
> > them? Does it must be Samba-server packet or client will be enough? And
> > what is NFS for anyway? When do I use this one? I got totally confused
> > about all this stuff...
> > I don't need some step by step guides or something like that, just
> > give me some "global" explanation so I'll try to go on by myself.
> >
>
> A SAMBA server runs on a Linux computer. It allows the Linux system to
> participate in Windows file sharing.
>
> All you need to do is to run a SAMBA server on your laptop. Create a
> SAMBA share on your laptop to make a portion of your filesystem visible
> to Windows. (Don't forget to set up the right permissions.) On the
> Windows side you will then be able to see the SAMBA server and share
> among your network places. To make things easier for yourself, you can
> log your Windows account into the SAMBA share and then tell Windows to
> mount it as a remote drive. If you check the box that says to
> automatically do that whenever you log in to Windows, you will always be
> able to access the share via a Windows drive letter, such as Z:. This
> saves typing, confusion because you forgot to mount the remote drive, etc.
>
> NFS is for sharing files among Unix-flavored systems. Using NFS you can
> mount a remote share just as if it were on your own system. I don't
> know of a way to access NFS from Windows.
>
> HTH,
>
> Debbie
>
>
If you check the box that says to
> automatically do that whenever you log in to Windows, you will always be
> able to access the share via a Windows drive letter, such as Z:. This
> saves typing, confusion because you forgot to mount the remote drive, etc
Are you talking about "MAP as DISK" function that I need to apply to
folder in windows that I want to share?
Ivan.
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