For your samba configuration you will want to download webmin. It puts
most of the setting in an easy to understand web app. It is the first
thing I add to a mandrake box, It is much easier to use than all the
tools that ship with it.
Andrew Vogel wrote:
>
> I started with a plan. A simple plan... Create a Linux box from
> 'left-overs' from previous computers and learn the OS.
>
> After researching, Linux-Mandrake became my choice, and I jumped on it at
> the 6.0 series. I'm currently using 7.02.
>
> I want to be able to do simple things on my Linux machine -- use an
> external ZIP drive, configure SAMBA so that my Windows 2000 machine can
> see/use Linux drives, and practice with an in-house webserver on Apache.
>
> My frustration is this... Even though I'm pretty computer saavy, having
> used them for more than half of my life, I have only been able to get the
> webserver running on my machine. ZIP and SAMBA are still not working.
>
> I've read darned near everything I can get my hands on regarding SAMBA and
> ZIP, but they just don't work for me.
>
> This is tremendously frustrating.
>
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> much, much more! My homepage: "http://www.drewvogel.com" Linux-Mandrake!
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