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After 1 week of spare time I have Redhat 6 Server running and can ping
it from NT workstation.

I thought to replace current 1.8 gig win95 file server that runs Netbui,
TCP/ip, and MacLan
with Linux using TCP/ip protocol

On the original server I have a partition set up as Data and then a
subdirectory  of a to z with customer files in directorys by their name

I assumed Linux would be good as a file server but only seem to see
info on WEB serving. If I am right can someone explain what I should do
to be able to see and copy to the Linux Server and into what partition
to copy the contents of my other file server.

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You certainly can. Linux also supports the Appletalk network protocol.

Quote:>On the original server I have a partition set up as Data and then a
>subdirectory  of a to z with customer files in directorys by their
name

>I assumed Linux would be good as a file server but only seem to see
>info on WEB serving. If I am right can someone explain what I should
do
>to be able to see and copy to the Linux Server and into what
partition
>to copy the contents of my other file server.

Serving files via NetBEUI is the province of a package called SAMBA.
It should have come with your Linux box. Poke around under /usr/doc/
and you should find documentation for it. A search on Dejanews and
most and web search engine should turn up lots of pointers to
information about it.

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You can use Samba to provide networking support for Windows clients.  Samba
presents directories from Linux to the Windows machines as though the Linux
box was an NT file server (for the most part.)

If you haven't already installed Samba, run Glint in Xwindows and find it
under networking, listed as samba.  Install it, and then edit the
/etc/smb/conf file to create the network shares.

One very nice feature of Samba, that is sorely lacking in NT, is the
ability to serve up shares based on user name or client machine name.

So, instead of using that hackish stuff that NT forces on you (i.e. user
dirs under letters, big ugly mess for users to navigate) you can create
shares in /home based on usernames, then samba can share each user dir out
only to those users.  Other users don't even see the shares.

Look in the /usr/doc directory for a directory named something like
samba-2.0.3  or something similar.  It should have all the docs you need to
get samba up and running.

What is the proper subdirectory to put my data subdirectory under? /usr
/home /var ??

Quote:

> >I assumed Linux would be good as a file server but only seem to see
> >info on WEB serving. If I am right can someone explain what I should
> do
> >to be able to see and copy to the Linux Server and into what
> partition
> >to copy the contents of my other file server.

> Serving files via NetBEUI is the province of a package called SAMBA.
> It should have come with your Linux box. Poke around under /usr/doc/
> and you should find documentation for it. A search on Dejanews and
> most and web search engine should turn up lots of pointers to
> information about it.

Hi John, I did manage to see the Linux server after spending all of
rainy Sunday. I'll say what I think helped as I know I am not the only
poor fool trying this.

I think one needs the TCP/ip protocol activated on the NT machine
instead of netbui.
Make sure the ethernet card is active in networking control panel Linux.
You can ping the computer

Installed as Linux as Server, Red Hat Linux has Samba under linuxconf
Is not in Linux Workstation -  one would have to add it somehow.

Samba needs you to start its services, see
samba help
samba start -starts smb services

use linuxconf, find Samba - I am told you need encrypted pasword turned
on probably a user matching up to who signed on on Windows

Once you can do that try to use the start button in NT, then find,
computer, the computer by ip number, then see if you can see the files
within.

I am here, for whatever reason my linux box is showing up in Network
neighbourhood as 192

Quote:> You certainly can. Linux also supports the Appletalk network protocol.
>  I have 1 Mac which I would like to link.

Also 2 of 386 computers running a clipper program that I am told may run
under dosmeu or something like that and telnetting into the server.

Incidentally under xwindows what is the proper way to shut down - I read
control backspace but it only reboots the xwindow interface.

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Erm. Probably /home.

Quote:>Incidentally under xwindows what is the proper way to shut down - I read
>control backspace but it only reboots the xwindow interface.

Shut down the entire system?
Open up an xterm, su to root, and run "sync;shutdown -h now".

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