On Thu, 27 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 25 May 1999, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 May 1999, JF wrote:
> > [snip]
> > >
> > > That brings up a question about dial-up networking. Is there such a
> > > thing as dial-up networking in linux such as I've been using in NT? I
> > > have a script there that dials in, logs on, maps drives, downloads
> > > stuff, logs off. Can I do that in linux too? IOW, rather than using
> > > telnet can I log in and mount remote drives over a dial-up
> connection?
> > > And where will I read about it?
> > >
> There is nothing _called_ dial-up networking. Anything you can do on a
> network, you can do over a dial-up connection using PPP or SLIP,
> including network filesystem mount. Between linux machines, you don't
> need Samba, only NFS, which is pretty much a standard part of linux.
> But if you just want to download files, why not use ftp? :-). There's a
> PPP-HOWTO, and an NFS-HOWTO along with all the other HOWTO's.
> metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO in case you don't have them handy.
Yes -- thanks -- I finally realized that what I need to run Samba OR ftp
(I want to know how to do both) requires I know the PPP and NFS stuff so
that I can do any mode over a serial or phone-line connection as well as
network. So I'm immersed in the PPP-HOWTO now. (The Samba docs -- much to
my dismay -- ran me into a wall of frustration until I realized my missing
data was the PPP stuff.)
Thanks for making sure I'm on the right track. :-)
Jamie
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