[KLUG Members] Running linux from windows

[Bryan-TheBS-Smith]

Dirk H Bartley wrote:
> Samba is very capable of having a unix host share filesystems
> with windows computers and vice versa.  NFS is very capable of
> sharing files with other unix hosts.

Glad to see you already know this.  Many people don't, or they think NFS
is "hard."  Even our famed local author, Steve Litt (who wrote "Samba
Unleashed"), had one guy setup a 100% UNIX network with Samba and get
utterly frustrated when he tried to handle user logins/scripting (and
then took that frustration out on me when I tried to get him to use NFS
;-).

> Reasons that I would see to use linux within windows is to use
> some device, like for example a scanner, that is not supported
> on linux and is connected via a port that won't work with windows
> within linux.

Why not use SANE and its networking scanning capabilities???  Assuming
SANE supports this scanner under Windows, you could call up the scanner
on the Windows system from the Linux one.

> If you could go into a little more detail of this file sharing
> requirement, I'm sure that the method of using a linux host could
> be explained.  If you need access to a win32 app then possibly
> vmware on a headless windows machine may work.

Or just VNC, with the Windows box mounting a Samba share on the Linux
box's side.

-- TheBS

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