> -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Bob > George > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 9:20 AM > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > Subject: Re: Networking > > > "Trent Shipley" wrote: Cool. I suppose there's no problem telling Linux to automount the file? > > > Q: To browse from Red Hat to NT4 I used smbclient. Is there a more > > convenient option that turns a Linux machine into an SMB client? > > You could simply use mount or smbmount to mount a share directly, like so: > > mount -t smbfs file://winserver/sharename /mnt/mountpoint -o > username=user,password=MyPasswurd > > This won't help with browsing though. > > > Q: I have heard *nothing* good about NIS/NFS. Will I be forced > to use NFS > > to network the Red Hat, SuSE, and FreeBSD machines? > > NFS works well enough, but if you're already using NT on the machines with > resources you want to share, then you could use it in place of NFS. The O'Reily book says Samba is significantly faster, plus I had the impression that there were a lot of security issues with NIS. Simple administration -- that's the ticket. > Not > necessarily "better", but if you already are using NT, it's one less > administration issue. Samba on the Linux machines will allow sharing of > those resources similarly. > > Here's the relevant line in my /etc/fstab: > > //winserver/sharename /mnt/backups smbfs > username=backups,password=MyPasswurd1234 0 0 > > Assuming the smbclient programs have been loaded appropriately (I'm using > Debian), I just do: > > mount /mnt/sharename > > on my Linux machines, and I can access that share (running on Win2K in my > case). This works well in scripts and such. I can also access Win9x shares > this way. > > Hope this helps! > > - Bob > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail > doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss