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by kahunanui

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Aloha! I am wondering if there are resources that would explain IN ENGLISH how we can attach our Linux workstations (RH-7.1) to our windows-based networks? We need to access both a stand alone workgroup made up of Win95B, W2K & NT4 systems and a Domain with similar machines. Don't need to route, just need access the shared resources including drives and printers. Most info we are finding deal with windows systems attaching to a Linux box. Will we need to install Samba? Does Linux handle NetBEUI? Although we primarily use TCP, one of our Domain servers relies on NetBEUI. We are looking for Web (Internet) and Book resources...and we would appreciate some hints or tips. Meanwhile, we will be scouring this website for sources. Thank you very much for your help!

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by lintadsl

Yeap, you need to install SAMBA. It will take care of NETBEUI. Once you configure your samba correctly, other machine will see the box.

If you want to mount one of drives from Servers, use this command; "THIS IS ONE LINE"
mount -t smbfs -o username -pasword=PASSWORD \\servername\sharename \mountpoint

Good Luck,

by bulch

Small correction to answer1 - Samba do nothing with NETBEUI. Only protocol Samba understand is TCPBEUI (NETBIOS over TCP), so You must enable NETBIOS over TCP on all host You want to communicate. And I recomend to select it as 'default' protocol on this Win32 machines.

by kahunanui

OK, in the case of the simple workgroup, each system can PING each other with no problems. I can get the smbclient working to the Win95B machine but not with the NT Workstation machine. I cannot mount any resources in any of the machines.

by ictatha

Sounds like you will definately need samba. The documentation on the samba website has helped me quite a bit. I would recommend reading the following:

An Introduction to Samba:
http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/SambaIntro.html

The Samba-HOWTO-Collection:
http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html

Some notes about Win95 and WfWg security:
http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/security.html

Implementing CIFS:
http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/

And if after going through thatdocument you're having problems, check out these troubleshooting docs:

http://us4.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/Samba24Hc13.pdf

ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/customers/samba/SAMBA_Troubleshooting.rtf

Those are probably good documents to start with, but also go to www.samba.org, and go to the documentation section of their website. There are many more helpful documents there.

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