Linux Journal: Tux Knows It’s Nice to Share, Part 5

“So, if you’ve been following the last four articles in this
series, you’ve now got your NFS running, an NIS server and some
clients going, and all those shares are mounting and unmounting
automatically because of your new old friend, the Linux
automounter. Life couldn’t be better. Until . . . that guy in
marketing decides he wants you to back up his department’s PCs and,
since they are all running out of space (those Flash games take up
a lot of space), he would like you to set up an NT server on the
network to do both of these things. You are at a loss for words,
and your blood pressure is on the rise. Install NT? Never!”

“Luckily, you run Linux and providing file space to Windows
clients is nothing a little dance won’t fix. No, not on his head.
I’m talking a little Samba, the Linux/UNIX file and print services
program for that other OS. Heck, why don’t you let those marketing
types share the printers as well? They won’t appreciate it, but
you’ll get a great deal of satisfaction from it <insert
appropriate smiley here>. For those of you who are sitting at
home with a Windows 95 workstation or two sitting alongside your
Linux server, this is also for you.”

Complete
Story