On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 at 07:35, amiel ong wrote: > thats a great idea!!! can you tell me do i need to setup for your > suggestion to work?
It's fairly simple, actually. Just set up a Samba server <http://www.samba.org/> (your distribution should have packages of a fairly recent version, too). Here in The Leather Collection we have a central file server (it's actually an everything-server but for now let's focus on its fileserving functionality) with 96GB total in RAID5 running XFS. It runs Samba 2.2.x and has a gazillion (well not really, but you get what I mean) shares with ACLs that define who can read, and who can read-write to the share. Our Windows 95/98/ME/NT workstations authenticate via Samba with a central password database acting as a Primary Domain Controller. Users cannot log in to the network with a false password. The best they can do is cancel the login and access the standalone Windows workstation, which is really worthless. Of course this is fairly advanced and you can install a simple one-man-data-repository Linux Samba server, but I just thought I'd show you the concept of centrally storing files for a bunch of Windows workstations. :) --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key: <http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg> _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
