Funny you should mention that presentation. When I find presentations of interest, I print them out and file them in 3 ring binders. With all the different sites, sometimes I remember a presentation is available but can't for the life of me locate who is hosting it or the name it is under.
Anyway, I had your presentation out, and on page 44, (this was very early on in the Samba 3.0 installation and customization process), when I got side tracked by the following manuals: Samba-3 by Example The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide Besides my total lack of knowledge of Windows and the networking world (I don't do windows, but I do network within the mainframe), most of the documentation centers on migrating from a Windows fileserver to Samba. So they assume that I knew enough to setup the Windows fileserver to begin with (that sure is a mistake). But now that I've gotten futher into the Samba setup, and hopefully learned some things, it's time to go back to your presentation and see what I can learn from it know. Thanks for the reminder Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/04/05 8:11 AM >>> Tom, > ... must be added to Linux as a Linux user, Samba share and in the > SMBPASSWD file (using smbpasswd as the backend, no LDAP etc, yet). I will agree with the Linux user and smbpasswd, but not the Samba share. The special [homes] section exists to avoid having to create separate shares in the smb.conf file. If when you create the user you also create a home directory (-m flag to the useradd command), that directory becomes a share with the share name being the user name. This feature definitely saves work in that the smb.conf file does not have to be modified. > no LDAP etc, This is definitely the way to go for the long term. My experience has been SLES9 makes it much easier as LDAP and Samba are integrated more tightly into the install process and yast. See my recent SHARE presentations on http://linuxvm.org/present/ One setup that I haven't gotten to (but I'd like to) is to be able to change passwords from the Windows Ctrl-Alt-Del panel and have both the Windows and Linux password hashes modified in LDAP on Linux. "Mike MacIsaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (845) 433-7061 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
