On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Uncle Meat wrote:
>
> On 12-Jul-2000 dattatraya opined:
> >
> > sorry, im a newbie so can anyone plase tell me what is samba, and can i
> > use
> > it on a standalone machine that has both win98se and rh6.0 so that i can
> > each os can access each others info... sorry if this is too dumb. just
> > guide
> > me to where i can find more info
>
> Linux can read Doze. Doze cannot (last time I checked) read Linux.
>
> Samba allows them to work together, IF they are on different boxes.
>
> There were some third-party binaries that allowed one to read linux
> partitions from Doze but, none of them worked when I tried them a couple of
> years ago. They may have been improved or something new may have been
> created since then.
>
Basically, Samba emulates the Windows NetBIOS protocol in such a way that
when you open your Windows Neighborhood in the Windows box you will see
the Linux box there as if is it a regular Windows system. However, as
Uncle Meat pointed out this only works if they are in different boxes.
So, in order to fix your problem you can always mount the Windows
partition when you are running Linux... although Windows will not allow
you to do anything similar with Linux. Other than that, if you need to
run both on the same box at the same time you should go for VMWare or
something similar. VMWare is a commercial product though. There is also
an opensource FreeMWare project, but it is under development and not
really usable yet.
http://www.vmware.com/
http://www.freemware.org/
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