Networking

[Trent Shipley]

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> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Bob
> George
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 9:20 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Networking
>
>
> "Trent Shipley" <tshipley@symbio-tech.com> wrote:


Cool.  I suppose there's no problem telling Linux to automount the file?

>
> > Q: To browse from Red Hat to NT4 I used smbclient.  Is there a more
> > convenient option that turns a Linux machine into an SMB client?
>
> You could simply use mount or smbmount to mount a share directly, like so:
>
> mount -t smbfs file://winserver/sharename /mnt/mountpoint -o
> username=user,password=MyPasswurd
>
> This won't help with browsing though.
>
> > Q: I have heard *nothing* good about NIS/NFS.  Will I be forced
> to use NFS
> > to network the Red Hat, SuSE, and FreeBSD machines?
>
> NFS works well enough, but if you're already using NT on the machines with
> resources you want to share, then you could use it in place of NFS.


The O'Reily book says Samba is significantly faster, plus I had the
impression that there were a lot of security issues with NIS.


Simple administration -- that's the ticket.


> Not
> necessarily "better", but if you already are using NT, it's one less
> administration issue. Samba on the Linux machines will allow sharing of
> those resources similarly.
>
> Here's the relevant line in my /etc/fstab:
>
> //winserver/sharename    /mnt/backups    smbfs
> username=backups,password=MyPasswurd1234 0    0
>
> Assuming the smbclient programs have been loaded appropriately (I'm using
> Debian), I just do:
>
> mount /mnt/sharename
>
> on my Linux machines, and I can access that share (running on Win2K in my
> case). This works well in scripts and such. I can also access Win9x shares
> this way.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> - Bob
>
>
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