Any way I can use my Linux server as a Windows Network Drive/Web Share? Whats needed?

[crewxp]

Hey, quick question. I have a linux CentOS server that I use for my website and various reasons. I use windows mainly for everyday-usage.

Is there any software I can get or built-in feature using Apache that will let me setup a web-drive or "Web Share" on my linux server, so that I can connect to it using Windows's "Map a Network Drive" feature?

Goal: Make a folder on my linux server accessable as a drive via Windows Explorer.

What's needed? Or what should I 'look-in to' myself to find out how? I'm not looking for a tutorial here, just asking the right direction to look towards.

[RobinVossen]

What you want is a SMB Share and you'll need the app SAMBA
for this.

I hope this will allow you to start.
If you'll need more help just let me know

[Rubberman]

I use my Linux CentOS system that way from XP on my laptop, as well as XP running in a VM on the Linux system. You need to configure and start the Samba services. Go to Administration -> Server Settings -> Samba and add the Samba shares and users you need. Then go to Administration -> Server Settings -> Service Management and enable and start the Samba services. That's pretty much it. I don't think you need to start the Samba services before configuring it, but if you do, then start it first and then do a restart after configuring it, just to be sure the new shares and users are recognized - I'm not certain you need to do that (the restart thing), but it doesn't hurt.