2006-06-14 13:46:44 · 6 answers · asked by francis o 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Linux can be used and participate on a Windows Network. For basic internet access, you need not do anything else but install linux as you would normally install it. For access to Windows servers for file and printer sharing, you need to use Samba.
2006-06-14 13:53:18 · answer #1 · answered by lwcomputing 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes. I have done this with 2 versions of linux and a win98 network.
You need to setup the linux machine with something called "samba"
Samba is the linux way of dealing with microsofts non standard way
of passing information via ethernet. MS uses something called "Server
Message Blocks" (even if you do a peer to peer network, it uses this).
Samba is Linux's way of dealing with "Server Message Blocks or SMB
which is the three letter acronym for SaMBa.
Some Linux flavors have a GUI that will guide you through the samba configuration. I did it in the linux command line interface and if I can do it. YOU can do it !!!
tom
2006-06-14 20:55:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can use SAMBA to "talk" with CIFS (Windows implementation of file sharing), ftp, ssh and MANY other programs. Some of the initial configuration can be difficult, but once you get things set up they will generally "just work".
Many contemporary distributions of Linux provide GUI interfaces to configuration utilities. Depending on your Linux distribution, you can do anything in Linux (and more) than you can do in Windows.
2006-06-14 22:08:25 · answer #3 · answered by Answer Drone 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes of course, linux is a network oriented platform it can comunicate with most of windows protocols , it has tcp/ip support so ...internet it's no problem , it's usally used for servers.it features ftp,telnet,ssh,dns...a lot of usefull things.if you want file sharing between them , you need to install samba.don't worry it usually sheps out with majotr linux distros, thus you only neeed to modify it's confgi...you can do that manually , or through a graphical interface.basically it needs the now:what name it will be given, which workgroup is it in, and which resources shoud it share ,under which restrictions.that's it ..plain and simple
2006-06-15 03:33:37 · answer #4 · answered by Rhade 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes you can
2006-06-14 22:15:36 · answer #5 · answered by miscillia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, you can
2006-06-14 20:51:05 · answer #6 · answered by DemonicPenguin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋