Networking RH Linux and Windows
Hello and a happy new year to everyone,
I operate Internet servers running RH Linux which I manage over ssh. I am now installing an RH machine at home for testing, research and development etc.. Questions please: 1) Can I network my RH machine to my Windows based network? All I need to do is to be able to use the RH machine as a file server. 2) If so how is this done? By using Samba? 3) Although I use ssh, I would like to know whether there is also a remote client to access my RH server over Gnome and/or KDE or other GUI? Thanks very much indeed. Best regards, Adrian. |
Re: Networking RH Linux and Windows
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The bottom line is: if you are serious about administering a Linux server, make good friends with the shell. ;) Not necessaily because GUI tools "don't exist" or "are bad", but because the shell is the only "proper" way to do it. Just like in Windows the GUI is the only "proper" way to do things. P.S. If you need to find any of the software of websites or terms that I mentioned above, you can simply Google search them. I am sure that the relevant sites will show up in the first few hits, if not the very first one. Google is very open-source friendly. Good luck! :D |
Hi sewer_monkey,
Thank you very much for your reply :) Looks like for now I will be staying with ssh while reading up on Samba :study: Best regards. |
If you only want to set up a fileserver with Samba for a small home network, you cold read "Learning Samba by Example", avalable free at www.samba.org. Chapters 2 and 3 should give you the answers you want, with sampel smb.conf files. To set this up is _not_ hard!
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hpoppe,
I can't find any "Learning Samba by Example" on the http://www.samba.org site, did you mean "Samba-3 by Example: Practical Exercises to Successful Deployment"? If so you can find links to it & its companion "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide" at Samba Texts. However, I find this book pretty slow going for a beginner, there are also excellent docs at http://www.knoppix.net/docs/, if they ever finish their maintenance -- it's been down for at least 2 days. |
About home-to-work networking ...
Hello:
Once you get a little down the road, you may wish to check out the OpenVPN project http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/ It isn't trivial to learn and set up, but it has tremendous remote access possibilities. VPN = Virtual Private Network OpenVPN is a cross-platform (Mac/Windows/LINUX/UNIX) project that allows one to open an encrypted pipe between two networks. Does what commercial VPN systems do, but for free. Once set up (I'm in the process of doing this now), my home network (with about 5 Pee Cees) and work. Once the pipe is built I can use ANY protocol (SAMBA, TELNET, FTP, whatever) over the link securely (it is encrypted with the SSL libraries) and compressed (using the LZO compression libraries). FYI, Charlie |
linux and windows networking
IBM do a great tutorial, you have to register but it is a good place to start with SAMBA
I used this info to help build a network at the school I work at and so far it has been 12 months hassle free networking. Derek |
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