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Samba and NFS are included to facilitate the use of Red Hat Linux as a file server.

Windows clients can access files and print using a Red Hat Linux server in the same way as they can using a native Windows NT/2000 file/print server.

In order to have these services start by default you need to run the following commands.

For NFS:

chkconfig nfslock --level 345 on
chkconfig portmap --level 345 on
chkconfig nfs --level 345 on

For Samba:

chkconfig smb --level 345 on

In order to start these services you can use the service command by typing:

#service nfs start
#service samba start

For more information on configuring NFS please refer to the man pages or the following link: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/ref-guide/ch-nfs.html

For more information on configuring Samba please refer to the man pages or the following link: http://samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/toc.html