At 02:42 PM 2/4/00 +0200, Clive Crous wrote [skipping to the questions]:
>i heard somthing about samba (?) is this for winders serving only ?
>(NFS?) is there a general doc for this that I missed somehow in my search ?
Samba's purpose is to let Linux hosts act as servers for Windows, though it
can do more. i tink the source for Samba is www.samba.org . In the Linux
world, you want to look at the SMB HowTo (probably on your system, somewhere
in /usr/doc; definitaly at http://www.linuxdoc.org).
>is this all possible ?
Runnign a 486 as a file server is certainly possible, but with only a 400 mB
hard disk, it won't be much of a file server.
>can I put in a couple more hd's in the "server" and install apps on it that
>can be run off the other machines ?
Yes.
>can I do this fr winders & linux on one machine ?
Yes. Not the same apps, of course. You'd run SMB for the Windows shares, NFS
for the Linux shares.
>would I need to get anything else ?
See below.
>the main reason for all of this is I want the server (?) also to be able to
>connect to my isp and the connection shared between 2 of us,
How do you connect to your ISP? Basically, you're asking the server also to
function as a router, possibly a NAT'ing router (using Network Address
Translation to let the LAN clients share a single "real" IP address. Doing
this, plus both NFS and SMB file service on a 486 may be pushing its
capacity ... depends on the actual volumes of work involved.
Anyway, depending on how you connect to the ISP, you may need a modem, the
pppd and diald packages, a second Ethernet card, or ... well, there are a
lot of ways to connect to an ISP.
>I also would
>like to only have apps installed once as I do a lot of development and need
>as much space as possible to work with. also it would be nice to have
>access to all data at once no matter the o/s I'm currently using on the
>client box :)
access to tthe *data* via NFS and SMB is trivial.
>And being able to do a port without having to reboot etc to
>test would be _very_ nice.
This I don't understand.
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