On Tuesday 17 September 2002 08:56 am, you wrote: > Are there any consequences or hurdles in having multiple distibutions > connecting to a specific distribution server with Samba? In this scenario, > a hardware firewall/router provides Internet access and DHCP for all > machines. > > Example: > > Wks 1 = RH 6.1 > Wks 2 = MDK 7.2 > Server = MDK 8.2 > > Will all workstations be able to recognize and utilize shared space on the > server (Samba) through using their own respective distribution's Samaba > clients (dsitribution and version as it applies, but assume the same glibc > libraries)? Or in other words, must all workstations use the same version > and distribution of client as at the server? > > TIA, > > Paul > > P.S. Let's not focus on the "Why?", but on the "Will it work?" Thanks! :-) you are much better off with each distro's version running on it's distro.... but you don't need the "overhead" of running samba unless you are connecting to M$windows boxes (unless you like it of course)
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