Linux LAN Information
Updated: August 31, 1998
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© 1996-1998 by Volker Lendecke,
This page is a short and easily accessible way to find the various
tools you need to use Linux in a typical LAN enviroment. If you can
not access any of the ftp resources mentioned below, please try again
later.
Here you find software to use Linux as a
- Windows Application Server: A free
X-Server
for Windows 95/NT and Macs.
You can also get the X-Server from
ftp.gwdg.de.
You might also want to look at Olivetti's
Virtual Network Computing (VNC)
system.
If you have some very old machines lying around,
you might be interested in
NCSA Telnet.
- Windows or LAN Manager File and Print Server:
SAMBA 1.9.18p10
Download the latest Samba version:
samba-latest.tar.gz
If you are looking for client software for DOS or Windows for
Workgroups, please look at ftp.microsoft.com. If you are using Windows 95 or Windows NT, all
necessary client software is included.
To use a Samba as a Fax Server for Windows Clients, you might
want to look at the following
page, where
you can download client software for Windows.
During the
4th international Linux Congress
I talked about the browsing protocol and some future plans for Samba. If
you are interested in my german slides, you can download a
PowerPoint version, and a
PostScript version. Both are compressed with
GNU gzip.
- Windows or LAN Manager Client:
SMBFS 2.0.2
There is a patch to remove a problem with garbled mtimes when accessing smb
shares on www.linuxhq.com
A smbmount root exploit has been posted to bugtraq. Apply this
patch
to your smbmount.c, and recompile your smbfs utilities.
smbfs-2.0.2 has this patch applied.
Also available from
sunsite.unc.edu in the USA.
If you are interested in using Samba and smbfs to completely replace nfs,
you might want to look at the
CIFS-UNIX extensions.
They are currently implemented by a team at the University of
Regensburg. Find the patches
here.
- SMB to NFS protocol converter:
Sharity Light
With this program, written by Christian Starkjohann, you
can make SMB shares available to NFS clients who do not have
anything like smbfs.
- NetWare 3.x Server:
MARS-NWE 0.99.pl6
mars_nwe is also available from
sunsite.unc.edu in the USA.
Eddie Dunckley has
contributed some little programs and config files to use PMAIL with
mars_nwe: marsmail 0.2c
- NetWare Client:
NCPFS 2.0.12
NCPFS 2.0.12 represents quite a major step. It contains the experimental
NDS code done by Arne de Brujin. NCPFS is also available from
sunsite.unc.edu in the USA.
- Appletalk Server:
netatalk
If you are working with macintosh disks, the
HFS utilities might be interesting for you.
Those who want to migrate from Windows NT to Linux or those who have
to use both on the same machine might find the NTFS
file system, done by Martin v. Loewis very interesting. It makes NTFS
partitions readable under Linux. Please note that if you want to use
NTFS via the network, you need smbfs mentioned above.
© 1996, 1997 by Volker Lendecke,
member of KKI