Dave Erickson <dave at rightwithgod.org> wrote: > > I am using Slackware 8 > > I thought about Samba but it seems kind of overkill. Is there much > overhead having it running all the time? Or can I just start it up when > I want to move files? Samba can pretty much run either way. Debian testing/unstable's package will prompt you and ask if you'd like to have Samba run on-demand via [x]inetd, or if you'd like it to be always running as a daemon. Shouldn't be too hard to configure on Slack if you like, or just have a script to start/stop the daemons that you run by hand. However, I've never really had a need to turn off Samba if it was on a system where the service would actually get used. > Would it be possible to burn cdr's over the network through Samba? I > have all SCSI on my Linux box and would never want to pollute it with > IDE/ATAPI ;-) but the drive are so much less and are outdated so fast it > would be a nice work around if you could do it. ie: 'cdrecord > /mnt/samba/windows_box/cdrw_drive/file.iso' You can't use Samba and cdrecord to burn to a CD on a Windows system, if that's what you're looking for. But, if you're just reading a file over the network to burn locally, that's easy enough. You'll probably want to be running over Fast Ethernet, though. Switched 10Meg Ethernet will only be fast enough up to a certain point -- 6x would be pushing it. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ "Were they sent to Hell?" / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ "Worse. Wisconsin." \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) -- Dogma [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020328/97377cad/attachment.pgp