[97055] in RedHat Linux List
Re: network(LAN) using Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony E. Greene)
Sat Oct 31 04:08:25 1998
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 10:06:10 +0100
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From: "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene@pobox.com>
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>At 11:23 1998-10-29 -0800, Rich Reich wrote:
>I am a brand new Linux user, I want to connect a computer running Linux
>to my NT network. What is the best way of doing this? Also, if I wanted
>to use this computer as a server on a Lan using windows95 workstations
>what are my steps in doing so. I would like to replace my NT server on
>my WAN, is Linux a good replacement.
Linux can replace NT for file/print and other services easily. You need to
look into Samba for this. Linux can also do many other things that a
vanilla NT installation can't do. Look into Samba and run the Linux box on
your network for a while.
Be prepared to read a lot of documentation. Running any server is not
simple even if you're already familiar with the interface. Linux/UNIX does
a lot of things differently from Microsoft's operating systems, so you'll
have a lot of new things to learn. The advantage is that once you learn
something, it can be applied over and over to solve new problems.
I printed and read the User's Guide and System Administrator's Guide (SAG).
You will also want to read the Network Administrator's Guide (NAG). The
User's Guide is not available as HTML (AFAIK), but the others are. The
User's Guide is and the NAG are available at the Linux Documentation
Project <http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/> and the SAG may already be installed
on your box in usr/doc/LDP. You should use Midnight Comamnder (mc) to
browse the /usr/doc directory. There's a wealth of info there.
Tony
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