SolutionBase: Integrating Fedora Core 5 with a Windows network
Fedora's Samba configuration tools are pretty good
Serve files from Fedora for Windows users
If you want to go full circle and allow Windows users to access your Fedora system and grab files, you'll need to work a little with Samba. I'm going to configure Samba on my Linux machine to authenticate users locally--again, I'm assuming that Windows is your primary operating system. In a future article, I will explore the concept of joining your Fedora server to a Windows domain and authenticating Linux users against Active Directory.
Fedora Core 5 includes Samba 3 (Samba 3.0.21b-2, to be exact), which is installed if you chose Windows File Server as an option during installation of your system. If you didn't install this option during system installation, go to Applications | Add/Remove Software and, under the Servers option, choose Windows File Server. This will install both Samba and a GUI front-end Samba configuration utility.
Once you have Samba installed, go to System | Administration | Server Settings | Samba. You'll get the screen shown above.
If you want to go full circle and allow Windows users to access your Fedora system and grab files, you'll need to work a little with Samba. I'm going to configure Samba on my Linux machine to authenticate users locally--again, I'm assuming that Windows is your primary operating system. In a future article, I will explore the concept of joining your Fedora server to a Windows domain and authenticating Linux users against Active Directory.
Fedora Core 5 includes Samba 3 (Samba 3.0.21b-2, to be exact), which is installed if you chose Windows File Server as an option during installation of your system. If you didn't install this option during system installation, go to Applications | Add/Remove Software and, under the Servers option, choose Windows File Server. This will install both Samba and a GUI front-end Samba configuration utility.
Once you have Samba installed, go to System | Administration | Server Settings | Samba. You'll get the screen shown above.
