[newbie] connecting linux to windows

2002-12-16 Thread Kenn Murrah
for now, i don't care about see my linux box from a windows machine ... i ONLY want to be able to reach a windows computer from my linux box, so that i can run wine ... do i need samba for this? or something else? i'm confused about whether samba is ONLY for making a linux box appear on a

Re: [newbie] connecting linux to windows

2002-12-16 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
well, sharing files, samba is good. if you wish to see your desktop, run a rdesktop client (terminal services client for linux) Other than that, if you wish to share your files across LAN, you can use AFS On Monday 16 December 2002 12:41 pm, Kenn Murrah wrote: for now, i don't care about

Re: [newbie] connecting linux to windows

2002-12-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 06:41, Kenn Murrah wrote: for now, i don't care about see my linux box from a windows machine ... i ONLY want to be able to reach a windows computer from my linux box, so that i can run wine ... do i need samba for this? or something else? i'm confused about whether

Re: [newbie] connecting linux to windows

2002-12-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 7:41 pm, Kenn Murrah wrote: for now, i don't care about see my linux box from a windows machine ... i ONLY want to be able to reach a windows computer from my linux box, so that i can run wine ... do i need samba for this? or something else? i'm confused about

Re: [newbie] connecting linux to windows

2002-12-16 Thread Roberto Armenteros
Here you have two choices. You can install samba in your linux box and configure it correctly. If you are in a LAN with a WINS server, do not forget including it in smb.conf. Your other choice will be setting up an NFS server on the specific windows computer I use a program named DiskShare in

Re: [newbie] connecting linux to windows

2002-12-16 Thread Roberto Armenteros
Here you have two choices. You can install samba in your linux box and configure it correctly. If you are in a LAN with a WINS server, do not forget including it in smb.conf. Your other choice will be setting up an NFS server on the specific windows computer I use a program named DiskShare in