For info regarding file & print services, check out: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ Chances are that for the simplest of file/print sharing, Windows will be easier. The difference is the amount of flexibility you'll have later when you decide to do things outside the scope of what you originally planned to do. I've seen versions of the following said regarding Windows: "It makes it easy to do simple things, hard to do average things and difficult things are impossible" On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, John Lowell wrote: > I'm in process of setting up a small peer-to-peer network using Red Hat > 8.0. So far, I've got a good ADSL connection for each machine and can > ping all locations successfully. I'd like to be able to enable file and > print sharing as it is my hope to use these arrangements to supplant an > existing Windows 98 network. From what I can determine from the sources > available to me, setting up file and print sharing in Red Hat 8.0 is a > far more complicated task than it is with Windows. Am I right about > this? What need I do to get one machine to see the others files? > > John Lowell -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
