For file sharing between Linux and Windows boxes, a program called Samba is the usual method You can configure the Linux box to show up in the network neighbourhood of the windows box Your refernence to SCP is another method but you then need a special program on your windows box (my favorite SCP client is winscp2) and you have to run ssh on the linux box All of the linux software you need is on the redhat cds John Lowell (johnlowell@ameritech.net) wrote*: > >Hi Don, > >Many thanks for your reply. You're right, I'm trying to establish file >and print sharing capability at the moment between two workstations. >Ultimately, the second of these will be redone as a web server with a >static IP isolated behind a router which will double as a DHCP server >for two other computers and a gateway to my ADSL provider. Right now >though, I'd like to get file sharing in place for the two in question. >Truthfully, Windows would seem to achieve this task much more easily >than Linux, but with the prospect of converting the second machine to a >web server in about 3 months, and with a decided aversion to shelling >out what would be required for XP licenses, I've decided to migrate here >and now. All of this says nothing, of course, of the very considerable >invasion of privacy I'll avoid if I'm ever to upgrade hardware, >something I'm quite likely to do regularly. I just don't want to have to >account to someone about which system board is on what computer ever >five minutes or so. I'm sure you understand. > >Anyway, what is SCP? I've got the Red Hat Linux 8.0 Bible here, an >excellent book by the way, and it explains NFS. I'd hoped there might be >some simpler method I could employ to get the file sharing done but >perhaps not. I get the sense that the complexity required by Unix/Linux >for this capability well might have something to do with it being a >multi-user OS. > >It was a pleasure to hear from you and I'll look for your reply >regarding SCP. Happy Thanksgiving! > >John Lowell > > > > > > >On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 22:03, Don Knott wrote: >> Ahh... so your talking about using Linux for the workstations. >> >> Honestly I haven't employed Linux in the situation that you've described. >> I tend to keep Linux for the servers and Windows clients on the desktops. >> >> File sharing in the Unix/Linux world is typically done with NFS although >> you can use Samba. Since my Linux servers mainly provide services to >> Windows clients, I use Samba. I rarely mount filesystems from other Linux >> servers. SCP is usually ok to copy what I need between boxes. I've never >> dealt with NFS but I suppose I should monkey around with it one day for >> the experience. >> >> Printing will be handled by LPRng or CUPs. Go to http://www.cups.org and >> there should be info on setting up CUPs. RH8 uses LPRng by default so >> you'll need to run redhat-switch-printer in order to switch the default >> print services from LPRng to CUPs. You can also visit >> http://www.linuxprinting.org/ for some info. >> >> Printing can be a royal pain depending on what printers and connection >> types (serial, parallel, usb, network) you have. In my setup, the Windows >> clients handle formatting the print jobs and then they pass them off to >> the Linux server. The server merely is a print spooler that hands the job >> to the printer without actually doing anything to the print job. In your >> situation though, you'll be concerned with getting correct print filters. >> >> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, John Lowell wrote: >> >> > Don, >> > >Psyche-list@redhat.com >> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > > > > > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
