Sharing Printers and Files

[Joshua R. Altemoos]

Hehe well the server would not b allowe dout of my local lan

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Meyer [mailto:meyer_rm at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:06 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: Sharing Printers and Files


I generally wouldn't want to use samba between Linux boxes.  It doesn't
carry
all of the filesystem permission information so things get lost during
copies.
Not usually the data but definately the permission bits get messed.  M$
doesn't
have a concept of things like execute bits, sticky bits, setuid bits... you
get
the idea.  Also, unless you use user authentication in samba, you also lose
file  user and group ownership information.

Personally, I use NIS for keeping track of users, automounts and some other
stuff and NFS for sharing filesystems between linux systems.  Almost like
setting up a M$ domain but without the headaches, crashes and hacks.

later...

Bob
--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> samba for all, although others would argue about the linux to linux part
> but for the less learned, samba is way easier. imho
> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 20:15, Joshua R. Altemoos wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > What is the program that you can use to share Files and Printers from
and
> to
> > linux with a Windows 98 and Windows XP Home as it would act like the
linux
> > pc is a reg pc on the network (network nieghborhood). If there is one
lol.
> >
> > Also how can i setup shareing between 2 linux boxs without useing sftp,
ssh
> > or ftp?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Joshua Altemoos
>


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