On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Glynn Clements wrote:
>Samba makes the machine a server. It won't affect any other servers on
>the network.
>
>> However in this case the
>> machine is a client on a network which has an NT server. So is it
>> still possible to share my linux directories on the network using
>> Samba?
>
>A server shares directories, a client accesses directories which are
>shared from a server.
>
>If you want to share your Linux directories, you need to use Samba.
>
Thanks Glynn, but I think you misunderstood. I DO know the difference
between a server and a client - I AM a newbie but not THAT bad ;-)
On this network presently the Win95 clients can access files from the
file-server (NT) but can also share their directories with each other
if permission has been granted, I think it is called peer-to-peer or
something like that (I might be wrong about the term).
Basically that's what I want the Linux machine to do too. I don't
want to have to make all the other Win95 clients to logon to Linux as
a full-scale file server instead of NT as most of the data-files are
presently located on the NT (more importantly, in THIS network, I am
not in charge, or I'd dump NT). Basically the other Win95 clients
should be 'fooled' into recognising it as another Win95 client, Samba
on the other hand would 'fool' them into recognising it as an NT
server.
Thanks again,
Ishaaq
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