I have a samba server set up to publicly share printers and a couple of directories to Win9x and Win2000 clients. To set it up, I did:
-obvious installs (Linux, Samba) -joined the samba server to an existing NT domain - a good writeup is here, http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#AEN400 - set up the guest user as FTP in smb.conf(I honestly don't remember why I did this, but it works. You could probably use GUEST or PCGUEST as the guest accounts) - enabled encrypted passwords, but manually edited the smbpasswd file to blank out the samba password for the guest account. Writeup is here - http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/ENCRYPTION.html Posted at the end of this message is a sample smb.conf file that does the trick for me. The share called "Guest" is read-only to all users, you could make it writeable by adding "writeable=yes". (note that I am using CUPS to do printing, so unless you also use cups, take out the line that says "printing=cups") Print problem - HP has a writeup on fixing "stairstepping" under *BSD here http://www.hp.com/cposupport/networking/support_doc/bpj02744.html. good luck, Mike -----Original Message----- From: Mat Branyon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 7:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [brlug-general] networking and samba well, i got two things im havin problems with at work.. the first is that i need a public share under samba, full access for everyone on the local network, without the need for passwords (its a secure network), or at least read access for everyone without a password. samba version 2.4 the second problem is setting up a network printer... it has its own ip address..but it cant stand to try to print plain text documents(its an hp2500cm). i can get it to print preformatted documents, but have no idea how to print something from say opera, or a simple text file from command line.. this is all under freebsd by the way... _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net [global] workgroup = MIKEGROUP server string = Mike's Print Server dns proxy = no security = domain encrypt passwords =yes null passwords = yes password server = MIKEPDC socket options = TCP_NODELAY netbios name = MIKEPRT log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m guest account = ftp map to guest = Bad User load printers = yes printing = cups use client driver = yes max log size = 50 [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writeable = yes [printers] path = /usr/local/samba/spool browseable = no guest ok = yes comment = All Printers writeable = no printable = yes [guest] path = /tmp/guest comment = Guest Sharing Area public = yes
