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Hi, my wife and I although being very familiar with the Windows XP OS, are
struggling somewhat with Linux.
We have installed Suse Linux 9.0, and then followed up with Suse Linux 9.1. We
have a Zyxel 643 router feeding three PC's via an ADSL broadband service. We
can both log on to the 'net without any problems at all.
Until we came over to Linux, we used a spare drive on my box as an
archive/file server for all to access. We have tried to emulate this with
Linux with varying degrees of success. But on one occasion both machines
locked up.
My question is this: Which is the best network protocol to use to achieve
this? We don't need to share printers or anything else other than a directory
etc. We would also need to be able to access our Windows partitions as we are
dual booting at present. We have tried to implement Samba, NFS, NIS etc. but
all to no avail.
As there doesn't seem to be a howto that covers all this in one article, can anyone point be in the right direction. :-)
As far as sharing a directory I think the easiest way would probably be SAMBA, but as I am not an expert in this I will leave those problems for someone else.
As for accessing your windows partition, as far as I know SUSE will generally set that up for you. In Mandrake, my windows partitions are mounted in the /mnt directory, so I have /mnt/win_c and /mnt/win_d. I am not sure if SUSE also mounts your windows partitions in the mnt directory, but I am pretty sure they will be either mounted there or in your home directory.
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