On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:06:04AM -0400, Hershel Robinson wrote: > > > My thoughts are to set up: > > > > > > 10G Windows 2K system and software > > > 10G Shareable data (FAT?) > > > > On the same machine, it's pretty well got to be FAT... but you could > > put the shared data on the machine you're using at the moment, under > > whatever Linux filesystem takes your fancy, and export it as a samba > > share to your new box. NICs are cheap... > > This idea occurred to me and interests me. Could I ask you a stupid question > or two?
Sure, though there are others on the list who know more than me... (I'm posting it back to the list; I don't mind getting personal mails as a result of list threads, but in general it makes more sense to ask the list as a whole, unless the question's specifically about pigeons :-) ) > I have an ethernet hub connected to the internet, to which I plan to plug in > this new machine. Is it possible to share files between them without having > a third server? Sure, just set up a samba server on whichever box is running Linux. There's no need for the server to be a dedicated machine. > How do I share them? I have a web page with info on how to > get samba to connect to my Windows network, but I don't know how to open up > my Windows machine to samba! Oh dear. I can't remember what I did on the Windoze end, and the HD with Windoze on is currently buggered, so I can't look. (And it's 98, not 2k, so probably different...) Basically I fiddled about with the networking settings, stuck the server's name and IP in a couple of likely-looking places and rebooted a lot. It was a bit of a slow process because of the rebooting, but not a difficult bit of experimentation. Oh, I think I had to install/activate/something NetBEUI / Microsoft Networking, the Windoze installation having originally been as minimal as possible. One trick I found useful is the ability to change settings on the samba server from the windoze box by pointing Internet Exploder at http://<samba-host-name>:901/ -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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