Here you have two choices. You can install samba in
your linux box and configure it correctly. "If you are
in a LAN with a WINS server, do not forget including
it in smb.conf." Your other choice will be setting up
an NFS server on the specific windows computer "I use
a program named DiskShare in windows which is trivial
to setup, hence you can share folders using NFS." Then
mount the NFS share on your linux box. This last
option works if you have control over the windows
machine you will be connecting to. Samba will be more
general since you will be able to mount any share on
your LAN, but performancewise, I think NFS will be
better.

Robert.

--- Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 16 Dec 2002 7:41 pm, Kenn Murrah wrote:
> > for now, i don't care about see my linux box from
> a
> > windows machine ... i ONLY want to be able to
> reach a
> > windows computer from my linux box, so that i can
> run
> > wine ...
> >
> > do i need samba for this?  or something else?  i'm
> > confused about whether samba is ONLY for making a
> > linux box appear on a windows network, or whether
> it
> > will work for what i need here.
> >
> Samba is the 'language translator' - and works both
> ways.
> 
> Anne
> 
> > Want to buy your Pack or Services from
MandrakeSoft?
> 
> Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
> 


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