On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:00 -0700, Craig White wrote: > 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 > Thanks for the help!!! One more thing, I just was looking around for some network related utilities... and I found LISa daemon!!! So now I'm able to see the windows folders and access them from my Linux machine!! but as I understood from your answer I still need to install the SAMBA server on Linux so I will able to see my shared folders on windows based computer.... it's so strange!!!! Don't they just build some "combo" package that will apply to all sides?... so weird.... :)))
