[Samba] Read/Write over LAN Possible?

Roy Eastwood spindles7 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 08:06:10 UTC 2018


Yes, it's certainly possible.  Take a look at the samba WiKi at: https://wiki.samba.org in particular https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Standalone_Server

HTH,
Roy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Bee.Lists via
> samba
> Sent: 05 September 2018 05:56
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> Subject: Re: [Samba] Read/Write over LAN Possible?
> 
> LOL apparently the word is “no”.
> 
> 
> > On Sep 3, 2018, at 3:04 PM, Bee.Lists <bee.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks.  Just set up a server, and I put Samba on it for filesharing to my Mac
> over the LAN.
> >
> > I’m a little confused as to what to expect from Samba with regards to LAN
> editing of files.  I open a remote text file in my workstation text editor, but I
> cannot edit it and save it.  I’m thinking this should be possible, as the Mac space
> (my workstation) can do that just fine.  I found this:
> >
> > "One of the cool things that you can do with a Windows box is use an SMB file
> share as if it were a hard disk on your own machine. The N:drive can look, smell,
> feel, and act like your own disk space, but it's really disk space on some other
> computer somewhere else on the network.”
> >
> > https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/SambaIntro.html
> >
> > My question is this:  Can this be accomplished?  If so, what do I have to read to
> get this done?  I’m not even sure if this is possible.
> >
> > Cheers, Bee
> 
> Cheers, Bee
> 
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