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Hello Advocates!

Is it possible to use a Linux as a file-and-print server for DOS, (cover
the children's ears) Win95 (sorry about that foul language), and WinNT
workstations?  How do you do it?  What kind of client software do you
use?  What protocols?  (here, let me guess: TCP/IP)  It sure would be
nice to have server software that isn't completely opaque, like that
damned NT Server stuff.

When it works, it's OK, but when it doesn't, well...there's nothing
quite so frustrating as trying to solve a problem where you know that
the answer is out there, just on the other side of that impenetrable
brick wall, but YOU are NOT ALLOWED to know what it is, because $$$
someone $$$ (you know who) wants $$$ to $$$ make $$$ big $$$ profits $$$
by $$$ keeping $$$ all $$$ the $$$ inside $$$ info $$$ top $$$ secret
$$$ and $$$ proprietary.

If you can answer my question, I'd appreciate eMail to

There's also a program that makes a Linux computer acts as a NetWare
file/print server;  might be NWSERV or some such.

Quote:> When it works, it's OK, but when it doesn't, well...there's nothing
> quite so frustrating as trying to solve a problem where you know that
> the answer is out there, just on the other side of that impenetrable
> brick wall, but YOU are NOT ALLOWED to know what it is, because $$$
> someone $$$ (you know who) wants $$$ to $$$ make $$$ big $$$ profits $$$
> by $$$ keeping $$$ all $$$ the $$$ inside $$$ info $$$ top $$$ secret
> $$$ and $$$ proprietary.

David Lee Lambert           Hack Programmer and Student
Admin of lmert.dyn.ml.org           http://lmert.dyn.ml.org
My web pages are at http://web.egr.msu.edu/~lamber45

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: Is it possible to use a Linux as a file-and-print server for DOS, (cover
: the children's ears) Win95 (sorry about that foul language), and WinNT
: workstations?  How do you do it?  What kind of client software do you
: use?  What protocols?  (here, let me guess: TCP/IP)  It sure would be
: nice to have server software that isn't completely opaque, like that
: damned NT Server stuff.

The all in one file and print server .. SAMBA =]

--
Bernhard van Staveren                   To reply, read the domain

"Linux, WinNT and MS-DOS. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"

I used to really like playing with computers, but lately I've begun to
sympathize with the Unabomber instead.  But reflecting on it, I think it
has a lot to do with reading the damned computer trade press.  Remember
when computer magazines used to be concerned with stuff like code?
Nowadays all you read is this billion-dollar company "strategically"
bought out that one, or so-and-so's quarterly profits disappointed the
stockholders so the value of the stock is down six points, or that
ordinary citizens must all be suckered into buying particular varieties
of computer gadgets in order to enhance their moronic TV-watching and
consumer-goods-shopping experiences, or there will be an umpty-billion
dollar market in XYZ systems running PDQ by the year 1999.  And the
articles are all thinly veiled adverti*ts for stuff you can't
afford.  If I wanted to read *like that, I'd subscribe to Forbes
Magazine.  Blah.  I wanna hack.

Fax server, modem server, http server.
Get a copy of CORBA somewhere -- transaction server.
Mail server. ......