Hey Jason, I am avoiding SWAT for the reason you mention and because I try to be an "Under-the-hood" kinda guy whenever possible. GUI's are nice when they work and if they are effective but I still want to be able to do this from the configuration level.
I like your idea on the serving by IP basis. This is interesting and I will have to try this. Thanks for the pointers. Subsequent question: everywhere I read about SAMBA I see that the Windows clients need to be running NetBIOS. My machines run TCP/IP and NetBEUI. Now if my understanding of protocols is correct NetBEUI encompasses NetBIOS doesn't it? I took a look and the only other place NetBIOS is mentioned is in TCP/IP settings but it is not an active configuration element. Any ideas? One of my goals is to get all users coming into my Linux Laptop get the same directory, there is no need for separate directories, or resources. These users are there to get files that I want to make available to them. So whatever shared directory I specify will contain those files. I hope I am not oversimplifying this. Jarrod ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Van Dellen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 12:03 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) help with SAMBA Hi Jarrod, I tried using SWAT and WEBMIN to configure my SAMBA but it never works exactly the way I wanted it. So I would edit the smb.comf file manually. Here's the conf file off my fax, file and print server. There are win98 and win2k clients. It's setup so it chmods the files to 777 so windows can still modify them. I set up the permissions on a per IP basis so I didn't need to worry about users. Could never get that to work, I guess I'll have to look into that some more. :) How this helps. # Global parameters [global] writable = yes netbios name = JASON public = yes security = SHARE create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0777 [printers] path = /var/spool/samba lprm command = cancel %p-%j lpq command = lpstat -o %p comment = All Printers print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers. printable = yes create mask = 0700 [user] path = /home/razor/User comment = User files allow hosts = 192.168.0.18 192.168.0.7 192.168.0.9 192.168.0.14 [recvq] comment = Fax Receive Queues browsable = yes path = /var/spool/fax/recvq public = yes writable = no Jason On Saturday 05 October 2002 18:30, you wrote: > Hey All, > > I'm trying to wrestle this SAMBA thing and while I'm making some progress I > am not wholly successful. I will outline what I have observed as being > successful and what I would like to achieve. Any help would be greatly > appreciated. > > I've got my little home network behind a gateway. They belong to workgroup > MYWORKGROUP (fictitious), each machine has a lowercase name consisting of > one word (the name of the primary user), each machine has at least one > read-only share set up. The Winbloze machines can see each other fine and > can access each other's shares just fine. I have successfully gotten my > Linux Laptop to show up on the Winbloze Network Neighborhood but when I try > to access it I get prompted for a password that I am unsuccessfully > entering. > > I am trying to use my Linux laptop to see the other (Winbloze) machines on > the network. I appear to have SAMBA set up and installed correctly. I have > edited my smb.conf file but I believe that I am missing something here. > > I would like to be able to see the shares of the other machines from the > Linux Laptop. I would like the other machines to be able to see the shares > on the Linux Laptop. Is there any way of setting this up so that I don't > have to create user accounts for each Winbloze machine? I'm not sure how to > say this... can each incoming machine access the same space (user account?) > on the Linux Laptop. This is basically how each winbloze machine works and > it would save me to trouble of setting up accounts. > > I am also using LinNeighborhood and it appears to get the other machines on > the network but cannot see their shares. > > I would really like to get this working. I have some files to transfer and > some of them are rather large. Ultimately I believe this endeavor could be > useful. Thus far I have avoided SWAT for a few reasons. The most prominent > is that I want to see what I am doing at the configuration level. > > Thanks in advance. > > Jarrod -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jason Van Dellen Trilogy-Net Inc. #4; 1935 - 27Ave NE Calgary, AB T2E 7E4 www.trilogy-net.com Phone (403) 219-8868 Fax (403) 219-8860 Cell (403) 815-1626 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
