Linux Networking Question

[AMDPwred]

I've got a Red Hat 7.1 box and a home network with (2) Windows 2000 boxes. How can I add the Linux box to the network for file/printer sharing?

 

[Louie1961a]

you would use SAMBA. There are strings on this site that are good if you search on samba. you may want to use gnomba or samba swat to set up samba, and a package like lin neighborhood to see your windows shares on the linux box

 

[ddiccico]

go here (samba.org) for samba, and then get a graphical config tool like one of these. bbSAT is a nice one.

 

[Techwhore]

You could just edit the samba.conf as well

 

[mcveigh]

try ythe samba mailing lists also they are quite good.

link to archives

 

[AMDPwred]

So on that Samba.org download page, what should I be downloading on my Linux box? Will I need to download anything on my Win box? I'm a complete newbie if you can't tell😉

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< So on that Samba.org download page, what should I be downloading on my Linux box? Will I need to download anything on my Win box? I'm a complete newbie if you can't tell😉 >>



Samba gives linux SMB support. Just download it to your linux machine, install, configure, run, and you should be fine.

 

[AMDPwred]

So I need to download SMBFS (& Linux Lan Info) from Samba.org?

 

[Louie1961a]

With Red hat, you shouldn't need to download much of anything. 7.1 disks should have the samba daemon, samba client, samba swat tools, and gnomba all on the disk as rpm's already built for that distro. It won't be the latest and greatest version of samba, but it should work fine. Pop your cd in the drive and use gnorpm, or the KDE equivalent to find and install those packages.