Seth Galitzer
sgsax at ksu.edu
Mon Mar 3 16:59:00 CST 2003
Arthur, The tool that does this is samba. See this URL: http://us1.samba.org/samba/samba.html for full info. Samba is a cross-platform implementation of the SMB protocol. When you run samba, the box you run it on shows up in your Windows workgroup as an NT server. You can set folders and printers to be shared just like on a windows machine, which can be browsed transparently through the Network Neighborhood. I've never tried it, but the documentation claims you can even set the machine running samba as the PDC for the domain. I have used samba on linux and it works quite nicely. There is now way you would know that you are not browsing a Windows machine. Performance is as good as browsing any other share on the domain. The file type and file system doesn't matter. Samba makes it all transparent. Seth On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 15:48, Arthur Fuller wrote: > I was reading some threads that suggested that a Linux box might be used as > the server. I have no idea how to configure this. Boxes a-f hit a server > which hitherto has been a winX box. If have read the thread correctly, I can > subst a Linux box for any given server in the farm. Small company, say 4 > servers. Can I build server Documents as a Linux box and hit it from the > numerous WinX boxes like they didn't even know it was a Linux server? I tend > to stay at one level, so forgive me if my questions reveal much ignorance. > Could I put a huge number of documents mostly media and DWMX &c. files on a > Linux box and transparently hit them from a local inst of DWMX, say, running > on winXP and having no idea that the server in question is running Mandrake > 9.x? Is this true? If so, way cool! And how do I build it? > > > > If so, how far can one push this scenario? Could an Access MDB live on a > Linux server and be accessible from x, y and z users on win98, 2K and XP? > I'm not an OS-level guy, hence these questions :-) > > > > Arthur > > -- Seth Galitzer sgsax at ksu.edu Computing Specialist http://puma.agron.ksu.edu/~sgsax Dept. of Plant Pathology Kansas State University