Re: File Server

[Steven Demetrius <steven.demetrius@fiwwi.com>]

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Lynn Kilroy wrote:
> I imagine this question has been answered lots of times, but I'll be
> dumb and ask it again.
>  
> I am setting up a Debian computer and hope to use it primarily as a file
> server.  This is for a network, and all the computers network together
> through an ISDN router modem thingy.  We have two Windows XP
> Professional Edition computers able to pass files back and forth through
> this network.
>  
> How would I set up the Linux box so it can be seen on this network?  How
> easy will it be to access the files on the computer, or for the windows
> machines to write to it?  What will I need to do with the Windows
> machines to simplify this, if anything at all?
>  
> My goal is to use the linux machine as a rather expensive external hard
> disk drive.  We evidently had some bad drives, and now we have a good
> one, and rather than try to move everything off this machine, and put
> Windows and all the programs I want to run on the new one, I feel it
> will be simpler if I just park all the files off these computers on to
> the linux machine for backup.  Also, some files will likely be saved to
> and worked on directly from the Debian machine.
>  
> There are two computers that we want to be able to access this machines
> files in this way.
>  
> Thanks for any information you can give me, even if they're just links
> to how-tos. :-)
>  
> Phileksa
> 
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A SAMBA file server will do the trick for you. It can be accessed by
both Linux and Windows OSs.

Check out "Setting Up a Linux File Server" on the following site.
 http://www.aboutdebian.com

For more details on SAMBA see
 http://www.samba.org


Steven.
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