System Administration 180 Getting Started Guide $ smbclient //sundance/C_drive 2. Enter the Windows password for this service when prompted. The smb: \> prompt appears. The smb:\> prompt is an FTP-like interface. You can use commands such as put and get to exchange files with the Windows PC. Use the Help command to see a list of valid commands. For additional information on setting up Samba for printing, visit the Caldera Systems Web site. Two valuable resources for creating Samba-based servers are these volumes: • Samba : Integrating Unix and Windows; by John D. Blair; 312 pages; August 1998; Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc.; ISBN: 1578310067 • Using Samba; by Peter Kelly, Perry Donham, David Collier-Brown; 300 pages; January 1999; O'Reilly & Associates; ISBN: 1565924495 Setting up NFS Services The Network File System enables you to store information on hard disks attached to your OpenLinux system and make these file systems available to other com- puters that have NFS client software. NFS client software is standard with Open- Linux (simply use the mount -t nfs command) and most other UNIX systems. NFS clients are also available for Windows computers. NFS is useful for providing automated backups of multiple systems on a LAN, or for network-based installation of software packages. Because of loose security and low speed, however, using NFS over the Internet or within insecure environ- ments isn’t recommended. If you used the standard OpenLinux installation, NFS services were automati- cally set up. To customize NFS, review the information that follows. To specify who can mount each file system (or path within a file system) from their NFS client, follow these steps: Open the /etc/exports file in a text editor. Add lines that define the path, hostnames, and access level for each file system or path that you want to make accessible to NFS clients on your network. For example, this line /mnt/cdrom *(ro)