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
