On 06/04/2011 01:30 AM, William Hopkins wrote:
No, I don't have a network up. As I said, I really don't know anything about networks. What I want is not only file sharing,On 06/04/11 at 12:58am, Doug wrote:On 06/03/2011 11:28 PM, William Hopkins wrote:On 06/03/11 at 10:02pm, Ron Johnson wrote:On 06/03/2011 11:43 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: [snip]NFS is by far simpler to use in pure Linux environment, Samba is for Windows networks. NFS has no passwords, just install it with apt-get, and declare /etc/exports in the server, and mount the shares in the clients /etc/fstab. That's all it takes.Fine for home environments, but shouldn't an office environment use LDAP for coordinated UID/GID sharing?/snip/ Not to steal the thread, but those who read this probably are the best to advise me. I know nothing about networking, but I would like to set up a peer-to-peer network ...Peer to peer typically refers to filesharing programs. Can you explain what it is you want? I assume you've already got a network up, is it file sharing you mean? If that's so, you probably don't even need samba. Just smbfs/smbclient on the linux clients to read the stuff on the Windows 7 box. but the ability to use the Win 7 machine as a print server. (Linux is not fit to be a print server since it takes forever to print .pdf's. Maybe someday. . . .) Also, the Win 7 machine is closer to the printers, which are hard-wired. All of the machines are connected by ethernet or wireless. but the printers don't have either. --doug Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley |