On 12 Jan 2002 at 23:29, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
> Yes, you can. You can use Samba itself, or you could configure NFS.
> Neither is recommended for machines directly exposed to the internet.

If precisely worded, don't allow to mix internet traffic with SMB/NFS traffic. 
If you firewall these ports, machine can be safely taken to internet.

> If you use NFS, the network is totally transparent (like mapped drives
> in Windows). If you use samba, smbmount is what you are looking for on
> the console, and any of the GUI wrappers around it.

You can put smb share mounts in /etc/fstab itself. I used to mount 6 different 
machines as 'Song Servers' by default..;-) Alas I don't boot in linux these 
days,, that is in company..

 Shridhar

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