playing with samba in a linux-only environment?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Yorvyk wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 01:57:16 -0500 (EST)
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
> >
> >   i *think* i've asked about this before but i didn't see any
> > responses and there was a period when my posts to this list were not
> > making it out.
> >
> >   can i set up a simple samba-based network in a linux-only
> > environment?  i'll be teaching another linux admin class in january
> > and i'm told the students will want to see at least the fundamentals
> > of samba.  however, the classroom will have no windows systems (that
> > is something over which i have no control), but theoretically, if i
> > can set up one linux box as a samba server and another as a samba
> > client, surely i can at least show what the setup *would* look like.
> > and (also theoretically) it should work, yes?
> >
> Yes it works, for me, I have a share on one machine that is accessed
> by other machines using Samba.  This was set up using the Nautilus
> share option.

  great.  i was fairly confident it would work, i just wanted to
confirm that someone else had done it.  thanks.

rday

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