ryan00002
10-07-2001, 03:17 PM
Hi. I have a slackware 8 box networked witha win2k box. they're connected via linksys router that then ocnnects them to the ineternet. my question is that if i install samba would i be able to use my win2k's hard drive via ftp? i want my users to be able to access it when they telnet in and when they ftp in. will samba let me do this? are there any alternatives? any help would be appreciated, i'm a total newbie to this aspect of linux. thanks. btw, i tried reading some docs but didn't see anything that answered my questions specifically.
Bokkenka
10-07-2001, 04:13 PM
Samba and FTP are two different things...
Samba lets you share directories between Linux and Windows. You can mount the shares just like they are partitions inside your computer.
FTP lets you upload/download files between two computers. You don't mount the share locally, it's like HTTP, you just send files to it or retrieve files from it. You don't need to use Samba if all you want is to FTP... Just set the Windows box up to server it, than any OS will be able to access it.
There's a slight difference between the two, but not too much of one. If you access the Windows share with smbclient, there's even less difference than a command-line ftp.
As for the outside users accessing the system, most of it depends on the router. If the two computers can access eachother by either Samba or FTP, then they will be able to with a Telnet user.
The one alternative I would suggest is the one service you aren't really asking about... Switch from Telnet to SSH. It's more secure. Search the message board for "putty", a Windows program to use instead of Telnet to get access through SSH.