From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

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?


Dunno about more secure but other than that the answer is yes assuming you
have samba installed.

Adam

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