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Sharing files between debian sarge 3.1 and Windows Xp
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by nske
Replied by nske on topic Re: Sharing files between debian sarge 3.1 and Windows Xp
Yes samba is really simple to setup, especially for basic filesharing.
Generally you have to do the following:
- Install samba, either from a package repository through the package system of your distribution, or download it's source code from www.samba.org and compile it according to the included instructions (they should be in a file called README or INSTALL). Recommended is the first option (use apt-get).
- Create the configuration file, usually at /etc/samba/smb.conf or similar. Inside the same directory, a sample config file should be provided. There are also detailed instructions and descriptions of all the directives at the official documentation page
- Create and enable the user accounts that will have access to your shares. I.e
[code:1]# smbpasswd -a lindows
password:
# smbpasswd -e lindows[/code:1]
- Run samba! Through a control script that should be installed in /etc/init.d i.e you would execute [code:1]# /etc/init.d/samba start[/code:1]
- All set, you should be able to access the shares by logging in from any windows pc of the network.
To make available shares of windows systems to linux, you can either use the smbclient or some interface for it, i.e in KDE's konqueror (provided it has compiled-in support), at the address bar define
[code:1]smb://1.2.3.4
or
smb://hostname
[/code:1] You will need to provide the credentials for a valid windows system account. The other way is to use smbmount. This gives more flexibility, since the remote share is mounted just like a local filesystem and no special support is needed for any application to access the files. An example of how you could mount the share:
[code:1]mount -t smbfs -o username=lindows,password //HOST /mnt/test[/code:1]
where HOST it could either be the IP address of a windows host, or it's netbios-advertised hostname.
For in-detail information you should refer to the Samba3 Howto & the manpages available online here .
Finally, there is also a driver for NFS shoved somewhere on the windows CD, with which you could access NFS shares from windows, however I don't think it is very optimized and you should get better performance with samba. Of course if you do not require on-demand access of files (that's filesharing, right?!), good-old FTP offers much better performance on file transfers than anything else!
Generally you have to do the following:
- Install samba, either from a package repository through the package system of your distribution, or download it's source code from www.samba.org and compile it according to the included instructions (they should be in a file called README or INSTALL). Recommended is the first option (use apt-get).
- Create the configuration file, usually at /etc/samba/smb.conf or similar. Inside the same directory, a sample config file should be provided. There are also detailed instructions and descriptions of all the directives at the official documentation page
- Create and enable the user accounts that will have access to your shares. I.e
[code:1]# smbpasswd -a lindows
password:
# smbpasswd -e lindows[/code:1]
- Run samba! Through a control script that should be installed in /etc/init.d i.e you would execute [code:1]# /etc/init.d/samba start[/code:1]
- All set, you should be able to access the shares by logging in from any windows pc of the network.
To make available shares of windows systems to linux, you can either use the smbclient or some interface for it, i.e in KDE's konqueror (provided it has compiled-in support), at the address bar define
[code:1]smb://1.2.3.4
or
smb://hostname
[/code:1] You will need to provide the credentials for a valid windows system account. The other way is to use smbmount. This gives more flexibility, since the remote share is mounted just like a local filesystem and no special support is needed for any application to access the files. An example of how you could mount the share:
[code:1]mount -t smbfs -o username=lindows,password //HOST /mnt/test[/code:1]
where HOST it could either be the IP address of a windows host, or it's netbios-advertised hostname.
For in-detail information you should refer to the Samba3 Howto & the manpages available online here .
Finally, there is also a driver for NFS shoved somewhere on the windows CD, with which you could access NFS shares from windows, however I don't think it is very optimized and you should get better performance with samba. Of course if you do not require on-demand access of files (that's filesharing, right?!), good-old FTP offers much better performance on file transfers than anything else!
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