On Sunday 24 Oct 2010, Terry Coles wrote:
> On Sunday 24 Oct 2010, jr wrote:
> > not having the faintest about the various *buntus, but there will be a
> > 'smb.conf' somewhere, can you compare the one on your machine with
> > that of your son's? also, you might want to see whether the samba
> > users are set up correctly (pdbedit(8), smbpasswd(8)).
>
> Yes I could and I could obviously use a completely different tool instead
> of Samba or editing the samba.conf file. However, my real concern at the
> moment is the permissions/login problems. As it stands there is no
> guarantee that he will be able to carry out any simple admin tasks that
> might arise. Most of them use kdesu, but some don't and it's those (and
> the fact that I'm unable to create a login for myself) that worries me.
In the end I did manually configure smb.conf and that has got samba working
for him. He doesn't want me to trash his installation for the moment, because
he is still seeding a number of bittorrents. If I can fix it before he
finishes seeding; fine. Otherwise his installation is for the chop.
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