Subject: Re: file sharing between platforms?
From: Dom Lachowicz (dominicl@seas.upenn.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 14:04:01 CDT
Quoting Phil Stracchino <alaric@babcom.com>:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:35:53AM -0700, Bill Lee wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > Is file sharing between platforms possible? I'm trying to figure out
> if I
> > should by a Linux laptop, and I would be much more likely to if I knew
> I
> > could swap .abw files between a Linux laptop and my other Win
> machines.
>
> Sure. Use Samba. It'll let you mount shares in either direction
> between
> Windows and *nix machines. If you don't want to deal with setting up
> Samba, you can transfer files via FTP.
Or floppies, ZipDisk, CDR, HTTP, ... You can even mount a windows partition
under linux and then keep all of your documents on that, thus avoiding
configuring Samba altogether.
Dom
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