[wplug] Network Linux box w/Windows boxes??

[Gary Morrow]

"Paul J. Kersting" wrote:
> 
> I have a small home office network with 3 PC's that currently dual boot
> either to linux (RH7.1) or WinME or Win98.  I'm a network dummy, and
> while I was able to set up a peer to peer network using windows, I have
> no clue how to set up a similar network interface with Linux on one box
> and Windows on the others.  I would like to have windows up on one
> machine and linux up on another.  Since Windows is too dumb to see linux
> drives I want the linux box to be able to see the Windows drives on all
> of the connected machines.  That way I can do production work on linux
> and can interface with customers that use only windows software on the
> other box.
> 
> Is this possible?  And, if it is possible, could someone point me to the
> how-to's that would help me to set this up?

You want to setup samba.  It's an implementation of the SMB protocol
(M$ networking).  Your Linux box looks just like another MS box.

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Gary Morrow                
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