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Anthony Green wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
>         Just a question with Linux and Win 95 machine on a network...
> 
> I have a Linux box and also a W95 box connected with 2 ether cards & cable
> etc and i want to access the files on the Windows 95 machine while I am in
> Linux and also access the Linux machines hard drive while i am in W95 (dunno
> if this can be done .. the W95 -> linux one).
> 
>         I have heard of people using things like samba and other things etc,
> but i would just like some input into what is best for this situation, and what
> is required on both sides...
> 
>         My main objectives is to just read the disk partitions on both
> machines, ie. mount the W95's drives from my linux box if possible? .. or
> just setup a network and use ftp if it cant be done by mounting or an
> equivelent..
> 
> thanks..
> In anticipation.
> 
> PS: I have this in rc.inet1,
> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} broadcast ${BROADCAST} netmask ${NETMASK} what
> else do I need and where are the networking and ether FAQ's or setup docos? :)
> 
> Anthony.
> agreen@uow.edu.au

Hi Anthony

We use samba here at work (under Free BSD not Linux, but the samba
software is the same) to provide our file server. We run W95 on the
workstations and you can use all the normal W95 utilities (Explorer etc)
to move files around on the unix box in the usual W95 way without any
problems. You can access your home directory on the unix box (password
protected of course) or set up public directories opn the Unix box for
work groups etc. We have had NO problems to date (about six months)
(touch wood).

We briefly tried accessing the W95 boxes from the Unix box (mostly for
curiosity) and it worked ok as well with the one proviso that it mangled
the file names into 8.3 format. I believe more recent version of the
smbclient software fixes this.

Basically, as long as you've got some expertise on staff (a lot of
places haven't of course), I think you'd have to be f*cked in the head
to shell out big dollars for any of the commercial server software/os
combos - ours cost $35-00 AUS (including os) and has run like a dream so
far. Actually, come to think of it I think we might have rebooted the
server once, when I left a few samba zombies after doing a big (70 M)
unzip from unix box to W95 box using winzip.

Samba works. For $35-00 and a day or two's work you've got nothing to
lose. You need samba on the unix box and LAN Manager enabled on the
Windows boxes. That's it.

Regards

MIKE