On 08/01/2007 11:02 AM, John House wrote: > 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.
Thanks, John. I went through your notes and discovered that you don't have to install samba in advance. When you get to Administration > Shared Folders, Ubuntu asks you if you want to install Samba. That's pretty much consistent with what Sean wrote, too. Regards, - Robert
