On 16:48:13 Oct 06, masatheesh wrote: > Hi, > > We have windows xp professional in client systems.I have installed > centos5.0 in another system.Here I need to make this centos5.0 system as a > data server.I mean,each and everything of client systems has to be stored in > centos5.0 system only.Users dont save anything in their local systems.Can > anyone please guide me to achieve this?
You are looking for a NAS server. I have installed NFS at home and it works exceptionally well though the traffic sometimes is excessive. (NFS v3 is what people use. NFS is very well supported over all UNIXes and linux) You have to go for a much noisier SMB protocol by running Samba on the server in case you have Windoze clients. The advantage that SMB has over NFS is auto discovery. Linux has excellent SMB client capabilities as well. You have to add a mount option in the /etc/fstab file of each of the clients to mount the network file system at boot. Of course you need the NFS client software installed on all linux client boxen. -Girish _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
