I should also mention that as it is a laptop, there is no need for printing services to be accessed from a user coming into it. I am not tying the laptop down to a printer, so I find the printing stuff irrelevant in my situation.. Remember portability. The fax thing has some potential but I will worry about that at another time.
P.S. Thanks J ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jarrod Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 1:04 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) help with SAMBA > 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 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > >
