How can I make my Solaris files easily available to MS Windows 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP on a network?
Solaris PC NetLinkprovides "a complete set of Windows NT Network Services,"
which includes SAMBA-type NT naming, file, print, directory, and security
services for Windows 3.11/95/98/NT clients.
It is based on Microsoft NT 4 code licensed
via AT&T ("Advanced Server for Unix").
It used to be available for Solaris/x86, but is now available only for
Sun Enterprise servers.
In any case I prefer SAMBA, a robust, open source package that provides
SMB services (aka MS Windows networking) from UNIX.
This allows LAN-Manager-type browsing and "Connect Network Drive,"
and provides access to UNIX print servers.
SAMBA can act as a file, print, browser master, and WINS servers, but not as
a domain controller (that's in the works).
SAMBA also serves files faster than NetLink (or Windows, for that matter).
However, NetLink implements SMB better than SAMBA, since it uses
Microsoft-licensed code, while SAMBA must reverse-engineer the code.
For the Samba FAQ, sources, binaries, and other information,
see the SAMBA web page at:
http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba/
Sun has a commercial product, Solstice LM Manager, that works (poorly)
with MS LAN Manager/SMB and links in with NIS/DNS.
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