Client v. Server

I have a Windows peer to peer network, and want to add my Linux box to it. I
can't figure out if a Samba client or server setup is what I want.... I have
a printer attached to one WinXP machine that I'd like to share, but I want
the Linux box available for file sharing - both to and from other PC's, in
part for file backup. I see my Linux PC as just another machine on the
network but can't find any documentation to help configure Samba. Thanks in
advance.

RRiness wrote:

> I have a Windows peer to peer network, and want to add my Linux box to it.
> I can't figure out if a Samba client or server setup is what I want.... I
> have a printer attached to one WinXP machine that I'd like to share, but I
> want the Linux box available for file sharing - both to and from other
> PC's, in part for file backup. I see my Linux PC as just another machine
> on the network but can't find any documentation to help configure Samba.
> Thanks in advance.

Use the Samba server to share your resources and the client to access
resources on other computers.

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RRiness wrote:
> I have a Windows peer to peer network, and want to add my Linux box to it. I
> can't figure out if a Samba client or server setup is what I want.... I have
> a printer attached to one WinXP machine that I'd like to share, but I want
> the Linux box available for file sharing - both to and from other PC's, in
> part for file backup.

A Windows machine on a P2P network is both server *and* client.

> I can't find any documentation to help configure Samba.

Hilarious.


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