I think you can share a folder under Window$ and mount it as smbfs under a linux box. P.D.: I still use floppies (I know, I have to take a while and buy a ZIP).
El Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:46:02PM -0700, Phil Stracchino escribi�: > > Or floppies, ZipDisk, CDR, HTTP, ... You can even mount a windows partition > > under linux and then keep all of your documents on that, thus avoiding > > configuring Samba altogether. > > Not if it's on a different machine, which was Bill's scenario. You're > right that sneakernet always works, though, although not all laptops > support internal Zip, and parallel-port Zips are flaky in my experience. > > Standard 3.5" floppies, IMHO, should be declared obsolete and consigned to > the bit-bucket of hardware kept around on dusty back shelves solely in > case you someday need to recover some obscure file off of one. There's > several different 100MB+ "superfloppy" formats on the market, it's about > time we just bit the bullet and adopted one of them (say, ZIP250) as a > standard. Hell, LS120 is even backward-compatible (although I'm told it's > rather slower than Zip). -- --------------------------------------------------- Alberto Cabello S�nchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 924 289 351 - 924 298 352 - Servicio de Inform�tica Universidad de Extremadura - Espa�a - Spain Debian Potato - GNU/Linux 2.2.19 --------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
