You can't use it if you have a standalone machine that has both win98se and
rh6.0
If you want to do something above and very simlar you should ponder on using
vwware
You need at least a Pentium 2
You need to pay for a licence to use the product
At 05:24 PM 7/13/00 +0200, Zoki wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, dattatraya wrote:
>
>->
>->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
>
>
>*** You would be surprised what you can find in /usr/doc! Since you're
>starting it's more than logical for us to present you the answer on a
>silver platter. Don't be surprised to get "RTFM" as an answer in a few
>months. ;-)
>
>########################################################################
>
>1.1 What is Samba?
>
>Samba is a suite of Unix applications that speak the SMB (Server Message
>Block) protocol. Many operating systems, including Windows and OS/2, use
>SMB to perform client-server networking. By supporting this protocol,
>Samba allows Unix servers to get in on the action, communicating with the
>same networking protocol as Microsoft Windows products. Thus, a
>Samba-enabled Unix machine can masquerade as a server on your Microsoft
>network and offer the following services:
>
> Share one or more file systems
>
> Share printers installed on both the server and its clients
>
> Assist clients with Network Neighborhood browsing
>
> Authenticate clients logging onto a Windows domain
>
> Provide or assist with WINS name server resolution
>
>Samba is the brainchild of Andrew Tridgell, who currently heads the Samba
>development team from his home of Canberra, Australia. The project was
>born in 1991 when Andrew created a file server program for his local
>network that supported an odd DEC protocol from Digital Pathworks.
>Although he didn't know it at the time, that protocol later turned out to
>be SMB. A few years later, he expanded upon his custom-made SMB server and
>began distributing it as a product on the Internet under the name SMB
>Server. However, Andrew couldn't keep that name - it already belonged to
>another company's product - so he tried the following Unix renaming
>approach:
>
> grep -i 's.*m.*b' /usr/dict/words
>
> And the response was:
>
> salmonberry samba sawtimber scramble
>
> Thus, the name "Samba" was born.
>
>Which is a good thing, because our marketing people highly doubt you would
>have picked up a book called "Using Salmonberry"!
>
>
>###########################################################################
>
>So, to put it very black and white, SAMBA is a LAN server that fools
>Windows client by making them believe it's a NT server. From there on only
>your imagination has limits.
>
>It's a very nice program and it is becoming easier to administer now that
>we have SWAT.
>
>Cheers!
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