I want to know if anyone else has tried to connect two dual-booting machines to have FC3 networking capability and Samba W98/FC3 network capability. I have the two connected through a router and to an ISP. I've done a search on LQ and can't find anything similar.

My purpose is to back up files using rsync from one to the other and to share printers from one to the other.
1. I would really like a good example of an smb.conf file using this configuration.
2. Is Samba only for Fedora?Windows networks or can it work as an interface between two Fedora clients?

Thanks in advance for any enlightenment anyone can give me.

I have two dual booting machines using samba, plus two windows machines on my home network. I share files and my main linux box (triple booted) and the printer, a Lexmark 4039 laser printer. I do not use rsync for backup, so I can not comment there.

Samba will run on any linux box. Samba code supplies both client and server code. So your linux machines can do both. Most flavours of windows are only clients, unless you spring for one of their big $ servers. (micro$oft)...

You don't need samba to share files between linux boxes, but you can do it that way. Nice having lots of choices. I set up NFS for sharing between linux boxes. Of course you can always use FTP. Cups will allow for printer sharing. NFS, FTP and Cups don't have anything to do with samba.

I could post my smb.conf file. You would have to change a lot of stuff. There are a lot of decisions to make, like security, printers, network names, etc. My file may be a lot more work to alter, than to go from scratch.

I have never set up samba on FC3, so I don't know if there are any special tools available or not. I'm a Mandriva user, and they have a tool in the MCC. I set my first smb.conf file up using Webmin. I have webmin on both of my linux machines, then it doesn't matter where I sit down, I can connect to the other and configure away.

If you search the forum, there are lots of smb.conf files to look at, and there is lots of help getting the configuration working as you want it. I would suggest you configure your own. It is a learning experience, but you will be a lot better off for it. Hope this helps.

Thanks much. You are right that configuring files will help. I'm finding out a little more about NFS configuring as I think that holds the key to two FC3 connections. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.