On 06/04/11 at 12:58am, Doug wrote: > On 06/03/2011 11:28 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > >On 06/03/11 at 10:02pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On 06/03/2011 11:43 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > >>[snip] > >>>NFS is by far simpler to use in pure Linux environment, Samba is for > >>>Windows networks. NFS has no passwords, just install it with apt-get, > >>>and declare /etc/exports in the server, and mount the shares in the > >>>clients /etc/fstab. That's all it takes. > >>> > >>Fine for home environments, but shouldn't an office environment use > >>LDAP for coordinated UID/GID sharing? > > > /snip/ > > Not to steal the thread, but those who read this probably are the best to > advise me. I know nothing about networking, but I would like to set up > a peer-to-peer network ... Peer to peer typically refers to filesharing programs. Can you explain what it is you want? I assume you've already got a network up, is it file sharing you mean?
If that's so, you probably don't even need samba. Just smbfs/smbclient on the linux clients to read the stuff on the Windows 7 box. -- Liam
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