[Samba] Setting up Red Hat machine on a windows network

[mark]

On Wednesday 27 November 2002 11:09, Kerr Seamus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am setting up a red hat machine on a windows network and i am wondering
> if the samba application needs to be installed onto the server or weather I
> would get away with it being installed on the local machine only.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> seamus.
errr,
If the server is a windows machine, then you don't (can't, I think) need to 
install samba.  Windows comes with these abilities built in.  If the server 
is a *nix machine and you want it to be able to serve files or validate 
logins for the windows machines, you will need to install samba.

If the local machine (The redhat one I assume) will be serving files to the 
rest of the network, you will need to install the samba packages.  I'm not 
sure how RH splits them up, but I believe there is a client package and a 
server package as well as others (development, etc.).  You will only need to 
install the client package (well, and IT'S dependencies) if you want to 
access the windows machines.  

I hope that answered you question.

mark