[mdlug] Samba

Rich Clark <rrclark@rrclark.net> rrclark at rrclark.net
Thu Feb 28 15:32:28 EST 2008


On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Garry Stahl wrote:

> I am trying to share a fat32 partition on my Linux box with a WinXP box
> also on the network.  I turned Samba Server on.  I think I have the
> setting right for the partition I want shared.  Do I need client
> software on the WinXP box?

Samba is the server, Windows network extensions built into WinXP act as 
the client, same as when you have a network client XP machine connecting 
to a Windows XP server.

Here:  http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/



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