Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-08 Thread kwan
On 7 Jan 2002, Michael Leone wrote: > On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 15:30, J. Craig Woods wrote: > > > > > Randy, and et al, the owner of this tread is asking about a "peer to peer" > > network, and makes no mention of having a Windoze box on that network. > > Therefore, Samba is not an option. Samba is

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Robert
Thanks for the replies guys. Good to see such diverse solutions and comment. I will try setting the current client box up as another sever and exporting to the original server. I tried Samba back when I still used windoze but with little luck - I could see the shares but could not manipulate th

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Michael Leone
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 15:30, J. Craig Woods wrote: > > Randy, and et al, the owner of this tread is asking about a "peer to peer" > network, and makes no mention of having a Windoze box on that network. > Therefore, Samba is not an option. Samba is only for connectivity between > UNIX (Linux)

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Ken Thompson
On Monday 07 January 2002 04:22 pm, you wrote: > At 02:47 PM 1/7/2002 -0700, you wrote: > >Uh, Craig, SAMBA will also work Linux to Linux the same as NFS will. > >I discovered this while trying CorelLinux and now have it set up > > in MDK 81 > >I don't know what if any advantage there would b

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Larry Sword
Felix Miata wrote: > > J. Craig Woods wrote: > > > . . . . I would never recommend running > > Samba unless you need to interface with a win32 system. This may sound a > > bit fastidious to you but this is, after all, an "expert" list. > > Never is a pretty seriously limiting word. How do you i

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Felix Miata
J. Craig Woods wrote: > . . . . I would never recommend running > Samba unless you need to interface with a win32 system. This may sound a > bit fastidious to you but this is, after all, an "expert" list. Never is a pretty seriously limiting word. How do you interface Linux with an OS/2 system?

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread J. Craig Woods
At 02:47 PM 1/7/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Uh, Craig, SAMBA will also work Linux to Linux the same as NFS will. >I discovered this while trying CorelLinux and now have it set up in >MDK 81 >I don't know what if any advantage there would be in using SAMBA but I like >to tinker .. >-- The que

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Tom Badran
> Uh, Craig, SAMBA will also work Linux to Linux the same as NFS will. > I discovered this while trying CorelLinux and now have it set up in > MDK 81 > I don't know what if any advantage there would be in using SAMBA but I like > to tinker .. True, and you can use it on reiserfs witho

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Ken Thompson
> Randy, and et al, the owner of this tread is asking about a "peer to peer" > network, and makes no mention of having a Windoze box on that network. > Therefore, Samba is not an option. Samba is only for connectivity between > UNIX (Linux) and a machine running some version of a Windows' OS. NFS

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread J. Craig Woods
At 09:46 AM 1/7/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Robert wrote: > > I have a couple of 8.1 Mandrake linux boxes which are currently networked > > client sever using DHCP and NFS. this topology is OK but what I would > prefer > > is a peer to peer net similar to a Windoze network where each machine > can a

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Randy Kramer
Robert wrote: > I have a couple of 8.1 Mandrake linux boxes which are currently networked > client sever using DHCP and NFS. this topology is OK but what I would prefer > is a peer to peer net similar to a Windoze network where each machine can act > as server or client. Is this possible ? Rober

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Dave Sherman
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 14:47, Robert wrote: > I have a couple of 8.1 Mandrake linux boxes which are currently networked > client sever using DHCP and NFS. this topology is OK but what I would prefer > is a peer to peer net similar to a Windoze network where each machine can act > as server or cl

[expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Robert
I have a couple of 8.1 Mandrake linux boxes which are currently networked client sever using DHCP and NFS. this topology is OK but what I would prefer is a peer to peer net similar to a Windoze network where each machine can act as server or client. Is this possible ? if so How ? thanks Rob