Samba and NFS share

[curtas]

Question:
Can a linux workstation mount a samba share from the linux server?

My current setup has NFS sharing the directories in linux and the same directories shared via samba with the Win2k machines. It works now, but if linux can mount a samba share, I wonder if that would be easier to set up and maintain.

I'm redoing my computer lab at work and want to streamline as much as possible.

Any thoughts on this? Thanks.

AC

[cowanrl]

Yes, you can mount Samba(or Windows) shares from a Linux machines. Many distros have the capability built in the GUI. You can also use the commands that come with the Samba client such as smbmount, smbumount and smbclient.
If you have Samba installed on your machine you can look at the man pages on those commands. If you look in the Library on this site under File Systems, there are 2 articles that deal with mounting SMB shares; Mounting smbfs shares permanently and Connecting to SMB shares from Linux.