Hi!

Is there any way to implement peer-peer networking in Linux just like in Windows?

e.g. I have 4 PCs at home,one for each family member. Security is not a major concern as we trust each other. I want anyone to share anything on this small network.

On Windows 98, I can simply enable file-sharing on each PC and the respective users will share their resources either:

Read-only Full Access Password-Protected Read-only or Full Access

Being a system admin for few months, I feel this is a simple and very fast way of implementing a small network.

I have wondered whether the similar kind of network can be set using Linux Desktops.

Any ideas ? ( Should I be using Samba ? )

Thanks, Nikhil Joshi

P.S.

One may argue that what's the use of a network if it is not secure, vulnerable to worms, viruses, etc.? But then I feel if there were no worms, viruses, security threats, crashes, etc. there would not have been any System Admins ;) But to be fair enough IMHO Windows makes a System/Network Admin's life easier.