Bryan Carbonnell
Bryan_Carbonnell at cbc.ca
Tue Oct 28 07:10:26 CST 2003
I wasn't sure how the Sun Box connected to the Novell Network, that's why I tossed the Samba comment out. Bryan Carbonnell bryan_carbonnell at cbc.ca >>> gustav at cactus.dk 28-Oct-03 5:47:50 AM >>> Hi Bryan >> Samba is not related to a Novell network. It is for letting a Linux >> server acting as a Windows server in a Windows environment. > I wasn't sure if you needed Samba to hook up a *nix box to a Novell > Network or not, that's why I threw it out there. > But that's not all Samba is for. You can use it to have full > Read/Write permissions on remote NTFS drives under Linux. Linux has > built in Read capabilities for mounted NTFS drives, but not write. If > you install Samba, you get the write abilities because you end up > mounting an SMB drive and not an NTFS one. That's right and I think NetWare 6.x has some optional SMB capabilities as well. However, normally you connect to a NetWare environment using the NetWare Client, don't you Susan? /gustav