On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 09:38 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 08:41:47PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > > > So before I start really getting to far into this, can I get sharing > > going on my home network with just samba or do I also need NFS? I want > > to be able to read and write to my linux server from all machines (XP > > and Linux) and read and write files to my shared XP drives from my Linux > > units. Looking at the Samba book seems great but is Samba all I need? > > Samba and NFS are two different protocols for the same stuff and can be > used independently. If you need to access the server from XP then you > definitely need Samba and not NFS. Samba is MS's file sharing protocol > (SMB), but better implemented ;) Better implemented? no. Bug for bug compliant, is what the Samba Team claims. Maybe more robust on the serverside. > If you can read the shares on the server, but can't write to them this > can be easily fixed. You need to tinker with the /etc/samba/smb.conf on > the server. The file itself is well commented and also includes some > examples. There are more than Samba perms at issue. If he isn't using the same username, or the posix stuffs below samba aren't properly setup. Remember Samba only adds on top of local filesystem perms. If those are wrong then Samba won't fix any of that. > Otherwise you can find lots of docs in the samba-doc package. True, but there are tons on the Samba website. John terpstra has really made huge strides in things like the "Samba by Example" document. Really makes things nice and easy. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0
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