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...identify itself as principal server? a. Am I correct in assuming that both machines will act as server AND lient? b. Is this is a valid setup? 2. a. As the partitions of both computers are the same should I slightly change the title names in each smb.conf - [e.g., homes and homesw; data and dataw; etc.] to avoid confusing samba's config [titles] even though the machines are given different names: east and west or can I have the smb.conf titles be the same for both machines except for the `east and west' names? b. Should the names of the partitions [/mnt/data,...

...identical linux computers [east and west] and I have both of them as both server AND client. At a later date, after this `simple' lan works, I plan to add a ms portable unit As the partitions of both computers are the same I have slightly changed the names in each smb.conf - [e.g., homes and homesw; data and dataw; etc.] to avoid confusing samba - otherwise they are the same. I setup, in east-machine: //west:/home/account /mnt/account cifs rw,....etc in its fstab. This generates share icons but no connections. I had put the same lines in /etc/samba/smbfstab but it didn't produce any ico...