[mdlug] Networking

[M. D. Krauss]

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:16:10 -0400 (EDT)
David Lee Lambert <as4109 at wayne.edu> wrote:

> --- Original message ----
> >Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:03:02 -0400
> >From: Garry Stahl <tesral at comcast.net>  
> >
> >I have a Linux box and an XP box on a peer to peer network.  I want
> >the two to talk as seamlessly as possible.
> 
> You have several choices:
> 
> 1.  Install Samba on Linux;  enable the [homes] and [printers]
> shares,  and set up shares for anything else;  use smbfs to mount
> shares in the other direction,  or just use smbclient to copy files.

I have had better experience lately with cifs then smbfs.  smbfs was
always a wrestling match to get it to work correctly and then would
drop the connection leaving you with a hung mount.  The newer mount.cifs
is a breeze to set up and seems more reliable as well.