Re: newbie question on networking

ray wrote:
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:54:21 -0400, Doug Lindquist wrote:


anybody know where I can find some good information on how to set up a
network under linux. I work at a community center and we are switching
from Windows to Linux (Fedora Core 5). we need to share a printer over
the network and allow one windows computer to access it. all of the
information I have found so far was of no help. I have been using linux
at home for over a year but have never set up a network on it. my network
experience is very little. Thanks.


Do you have specific questions? To some extent, networking is networking.
I believe you'll need samba to share the printer with MS. There are
networking howtos and samba howto at tldp.org.

I take a hybrid approach to networking Windows and Linux, and this involves using the Services for Unix disk available for free from Microsoft. This is because of the unreliability of Samba when networking from Linux to Windows, it works okay going from Windows to Linux:

1. Linux to Windows: I use NFS, setting up my Windows box as an NFS client (using the SFU disk), and the Linux box as an NFS server. I then map drives to Linux filesystems through NFS. Works like a rock.

2. Windows to Linux: SMB (Samba) works okay in this direction. I set up my Linux box as a Samba client, and define an smbfs mountpoint in etc/fstab. This works like a rock, too.
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