On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 06:53, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
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> On 02-Nov-2002/22:02 -0600, Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 15:08, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> >> On 01-Nov-2002/07:24 -0500, Anthony Abby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >>I have RedHat 8.0 loaded with Open Office. I want to be able to access
> >> >>Word/Excel documents on Windows server. What is the easiest way of
> >> >>accomplishing this?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >If you mean accessing those files over the network from your linux box,
> >> >SAMBA would be the way.
> >> 
> >> Not quite. Samba allows Windows machines to access files taht are stored
> >> on a Linux box. If you need to have Linux access files that are stored on
> >> a Windows box, then 'smbmount' is needed.
> >> 
> >
> >OK samba-client then
> 
> Yeah, I know that samba-client is part of the set of packages that are
> generally installed with samba, but I didn't want the user to spend a lot
> of time looking for samba configuration stuff which is not relevant to
> using smbmount.
> 

Makes sense.  Sorry If I was a bit testy.

Bret



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