Re: Samba (was: OS-X vs. Windows)

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26 Dec 2001 thomas@inorbit.com wrote:

> Further, would there be any point to running Samba in a Linux partition?
> I mean, if the point is to share iSeries objects, the Linux partition
> wouldn't be much use, would it? Wouldn't it only share the Linux space?
> Wouldn't Linux/Samba have to talk to Netserver in order to access native
> OS/400 objects anyway? I'd think PASE/Samba would have it much easier.

I don't know.  Does anyone have linux on their iSeries?  Can linux access
the os/400 file systems?  It seems to me there should be no problem
accessing the IFS, and since it is the IFS that is shared using Netserver
maybe linux running samba is the way to go (if you have that option
available).

James Rich
james@eaerich.com