How do I network with Windows and Linux on same computers?
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 at
12:26
I’m sick of microsoft, but don’t know Linux very well. Here’s my plan: I want to put Linux and windows on both computers. I want to network the two with Linux (I’ll only be using windows for offline work). Will windows interfere with me using Linux as my preferred OS? Any other problems I might face? Is Ubuntu easy to network with?
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Ubuntu is easy to network with. What you want to do is install the Samba package (SMB). Samba should already be on Windows, and the setup is the same. If you already know Windows well enough to set up a network with all Windows machines, you’ll have no trouble with Samba on Ubuntu. If you don’t need to network with Windows at all, there may be other options, but Samba’s nice because you can network any major OS with it.