I am planning to set up a small compute farm consisting of x86 notebooks on a switched ethernet lan. These only have one nic and limited disk, so that I need to import a data partition from an external file server. For this purpose I'd like to use a w98 PC that has access to internet over dsl. I envisage connecting all machines to the ethernet switch using 10/100 links. The ip addresses would be (i) the DHCP-assigned address for the w98 machine, and (ii) local addresses for the linux machines, such as 10.0.0.* Can I use SAMBA to turn the w98 box into a file-server and use the linux notebooks as SAMBA-clients? Any links to good how-to sites, cookbooks and the like would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Joseph
If all your clients are linux it does not make sense to use samba. Turn your windows machine into a linux box and then use NFS to share anything you want from the pc to the laptops. If you are actually setting up a linux cluster then you may want to check out rocks which is based on RHEL: http://rocks.npaci.edu/Rocks/ and is free as in beer. Diego -----Original Message----- From: samba-bounces+dijuremo=math.gatech.edu@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces+dijuremo=math.gatech.edu@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Pareti, Joseph Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 12:08 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] Can SAMBA be useful for me ? I am planning to set up a small compute farm consisting of x86 notebooks on a switched ethernet lan. These only have one nic and limited disk, so that I need to import a data partition from an external file server. For this purpose I'd like to use a w98 PC that has access to internet over dsl. I envisage connecting all machines to the ethernet switch using 10/100 links. The ip addresses would be (i) the DHCP-assigned address for the w98 machine, and (ii) local addresses for the linux machines, such as 10.0.0.* Can I use SAMBA to turn the w98 box into a file-server and use the linux notebooks as SAMBA-clients? Any links to good how-to sites, cookbooks and the like would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Joseph -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Windows 98 Exposed to the internet as your, fileserver and your sudo router? Madness!!! lol You should buy a cheap D-Link or Linksys router to start. I would agree that SAMBA make no sense at all. SAMBA is designed primarily for Windows users to connect to non-windows server. Take your w98 PC, format the hard drive, throw away the w98 CD and install Linux. Dan T On Mar 12, 2005, at 10:07 AM, Pareti, Joseph wrote:> I am planning to set up a small compute farm consisting of x86 > notebooks > on a switched ethernet lan. These only have one nic and limited disk, > so > that I need to import a data partition from an external file server. > For > this purpose I'd like > to use a w98 PC that has access to internet over dsl. I envisage > connecting all machines to the ethernet switch using 10/100 links. The > ip addresses would be (i) the DHCP-assigned address for the w98 > machine, > and (ii) local addresses for the linux machines, such as 10.0.0.* > > Can I use SAMBA to turn the w98 box into a file-server and use the > linux > notebooks as SAMBA-clients? Any links to good how-to sites, cookbooks > and the like would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Joseph > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >