From: "Robert Comer" 

> But what about the other direction? Can Linux to file sharing where it
> makes a share available to Windows?

Yep, using the SMB Server. I haven't set something like that up personally though.

SMB is as sophisticated out of the box as Windows gets, but for other
types, NFS is pretty decent.  Hmm, maybe Windows can do Novel shares, but
it's been so long since I've run across those...

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Bob Comer


"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:44c1bd4a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>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?

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