(Of course, a better way to manage a project is with CVS or some other version
control??“type software, but this is a poor person??™s way to do it.)
/var/log??”An administrator can keep track of log files from several different computers
by mounting the /var/log file on the administrator??™s computer. (Each server may
need to export the directory to enable root to be mapped between the computers for this
to work.) If there are problems with a computer, the administrator can then easily view
the shared log files live.
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If you are working exclusively with Linux and other UNIX systems, NFS is probably your best
choice for sharing file systems. You can mount NFS shares on a Windows client, but only if you
have NFS client software for Windows, something most organizations do not have. If your network
consists primarily of Microsoft Windows computers or a combination of systems, you may want to
look into using Samba for file sharing.
Setting Up a Samba File Server
Samba is a software package that comes with Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems and
many other Linux systems. (You can obtain the Samba software package from www.samba.org if
it is not included with your distribution.) Samba enables you to share file systems and printers on
a network with computers that use the Server Message Block (SMB) or Common Internet File
System (CIFS) protocol.
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