I have set up Samba at home and it was fairly straightforward.
Install Samba. I use Synaptic Package Manager
Assure that boxes are on same subnet and members of same domain.
(Domain can be internal).
Desktop > Administration > Networking >
under General make sure of your hostname and the domain
under DNS assure they are resolving to a common set of DNS servers
(Although this probably is not necessary, it makes sense)
Under Hosts make sure all the hosts you want to connect are listed.
Administration > Shared Folders
Set up your share(s)
Test on Computer icon and assure you can reach host. I put an icon to
the hosts I want to save to on my desktop.
The step I cannot tell you about is setting up the home folder for a
user to write to a file server instead of writing to the home drive.
adelmand wrote:
>
> What's the IP? Should we consider setting up some kind of network-
> wide authentication or DNS? I could help with (do) either as it
> would be relatively easy to do from home.
>
> Dan
>
> On Jul 29, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Robert Citek wrote:
>
> On 07/21/2007 02:55 PM, Sean Burns wrote:
> > There was an extra machine in the shop with a pretty decent processor
> > but no hard drive and Theresa suggested it would make a good file
> > server.
> > ...
> > I've never created a file server before, so I don't really know if
> > this is the proper way to go about it. I'll do some research before
> > next Saturday to make sure.
>
> Thanks to Sean, we have a Samba file server. That means that any
> machine on the BWorks network (Debian, Ubuntu, or Windows) can connect
> to it to to store files.
>
> Sean, can you describe how you setup Samba? There's no hurry as I
> realize you're packing up and moving to Columbia, just whenever you get
> a chance.
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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