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
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, BeeCheers, Bee
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 > To: Submit Samba > 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 > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba