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.
