I'm looking for general guidance on the following and any help is much appreciated.
My Situation ------------------- I have two PC's. PC #1 is running WinXP Pro and PC #2 is running RedHat 9.
Goal ------- I have a "shared" folder on PC #1 that I would like to "map" (mount) on PC #2.
Question ------------- Which linux service(s) and/or application(s) handle this type of file sharing? Is it the Samba service and if so is this the only method to "map" (mount) a drive on PC#2 from PC#1?
On the Linux side, the two common ways to mount remote drives are with Samba and with NFS. Linux also supports old-style Macintosh sharing via netatalk. Your limitation is more likely to be on the Windows side than the Linux side.
Usually, Windows supports only SMB (Samba, that is), but I imagine (though I don't know ... this is a Linux list, not a Windows list) there *might* be add-in NFS servers available for Windows. You can do SMB in userspace with smbclient (clumsy, comparatively speaking) or in kernelspace if you compile your kernel to support smbfs filesystems (smooth).
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