Samba ?

[dean]

Reading over the price and packages page (http://www.futurequest.net/packages.shtml) and I was wondering...

I feel so uninformed, what is a Windows to Unix Samba Mounts ? and more importantly What coult they do for me ?

I read the Samba page and I am still confused (but slightly amused). I was looking for a real life application example to see I some how Samba could help me ?

anyone using this ?

[Terra]

Samba mounts is the ability to mount remote filesystems, local to your own...

e.g.

\\TAZ\xdmcity\www --> m:\

You access your www directory via 'm:\index.html'

The only problem with Samba mounts is that Unix has to map it's *extended* file/dir modes to Windows neutered 'rhsa' modes...

Deb and I use Samba on our Spunky server to access shared file storage via the 'Network Neighborhood' Windows mechanism...

Samba is currently being upgraded to the 2.0 series for the Linux 2.2 kernel and will be on the new server...

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Terra
--Yes, I can make Windows talk to Linux politely--
FutureQuest.net

[Jacob Stetser]

oooh, what about netatalk? AppleShare over IP would be kinda neat, and a little more intuitive and friendly than FTP http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif

It's a free Linux program. I sortakinda know the author of it, Adrian Sun.. He works at the company I left not too long ago- a Linux development company http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif



[This message has been edited by Jacob Stetser (edited 02-07-99).]