On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 22:04 +0300, 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. > > These are the different types of schemes I would prefer to receive some > info about what do I need to install on each one to get the file sharing > among them. I wanna try all of these for gain some experience. :))) > 1) PC=Win XP laptop=FC5 > 2) PC=FC5 laptop=FC5 > 3) PC=FC5 laptop=Win XP > > *** note: my PC has direct connection to the NET and laptop connects via > PC. ---- smb (samba is derived from smb) means server messaging block - the original Windows methodology of networking. If UNIX/Linux systems want to share files with Windows systems, samba is what you use on Linux/UNIX, windows networking is what you use on Windows. nfs (network file system) is a uniquely UNIX/Linux file sharing scheme and unless you install the Microsoft offering 'Services For Unix' - Windows is utterly incapable of using this networking methodology. NFS understands the users/groups methodology of Linux/UNIX systems. Samba understands the users/groups methodology of Windows systems. samba has excellent documentation that explains it all - see 'By Example' here... http://samba.org/samba/docs nfs has pretty good documentation...see http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/ and maybe this link... http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lame/LAME/linux-admin-made-easy/index.html Craig
