Re: [TCLUG:11292] How to share a hard drive?

[Kevin Bullock <kbullock@ringworld.org>]

On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Dave Erickson wrote:

> I have a 2.5 GB Fat32 partition on the Red Hat box set aside for this.
> My question is, what is the best way to do it? The other machines run
> Windows if that makes a difference. Would I have to use Samba? Is this
> possible? Is the earth round?
Samba is what you want -- hell, at SJU we even use it to share
unix-to-unix (well, that wasn't my decision). For windows clients it's
certainly easiest. Check the HOWTOs and the samba documentation
(http://www.samba.org/) -- very good info there. I would recommend,
however, that you change that partition over to ext2 if it's not too much
trouble, since only the server cares what filesystem it's running, and
linux likes ext2 better :)

Kevin R. Bullock                                _
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