From: Tim Boyer 

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:52:58 -0700, Randall Parker

wrote:

>I found in Fedora 5 Gnome desktop's:
>    Places | Connect to Server...
>
>On that "Connect to Server" form the Service type
"Windows share" appears to
be for
>outbound sharing of files on other machines.
>
>But what about the other direction? Can Linux to file sharing where it makes a
share
>available to Windows?
>
>Also, instead of doing Windows share could I configure something more
sophisticated
>so that the Linux box acts like a file server using some more sophistacted
protocol
>that Windows understands? Would that approach be any more secure? If so, how?

Yup.  Samba lets a Unix/Linux box be a Windows share, a printer share, a
domain controller, a WINS controller, etc.

All of our 'My Documents' directories at work are actually on a Unix box. 
That way, _I_ control the backups.

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tim boyer
tim{at}denmantire.com

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