Subject: Re: Quick Question
From: Craig Simpson (craigs@rampt.com)
Date: Fri Jul 28 2000 - 14:00:33 EDT
For some Reason I using Cops tryed to connect to my two Redhat 6.2 linux
machines. One I could connect to via Netatalk and the other created an
error.
Craig
Ryan McBeth wrote:
> Tim,
>
> I don't think that you can. I didn't think that NT (natively at
> least) could connect to other Macs. Although it does have its own
> file server.
>
> Although I've often wondered if you could have a Windows NT
> machine connect to linux via SMB, and then serve out Active Server
> Pages from a SMB share on linux through IIS.
>
> Come to think of it, I really need a life.
>
> Ryan
>
> At 9:49 -0700 28/7/2000, TimY wrote:
> >I am wondering if anyone has tried this before.
> >Lets say you have a windoze NT box running Mac file services. And a
> >Linux box running netatalk. Could you SMB mount the Mac shared
> >directory from the NT box to the linux box. Then share it using
> >Netatalk on the linux box. If you could, how would this affect the
> >license for windoze NT? I mean you are only using one account to
> >access the NT box, right? I know this would be slow and a big pain
> >in the butt. It sure would make M$ real mad.
> >
> >On the flip side I actually got this to work using Xinet KASHARE on
> >a Solaris7 x86 machine. And it was actually faster than the NT
> >machine.
> >
> >This is just a thought that I have been wondering about.
> >
> >Any comments??
> >Thanks,
> >Tim Yardley
> >
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