On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> > 1)Installed, configured and started smb service. To configure samba > you can > > edit /etc/smb.conf(Or similar) or use webmin/swat fo that. Mandrake > offers > > samba and NFS client config. as a part of their GUI fdisk program. > > Why does it have to be /etc/... > Can't I build a script which would just be doing that for me? > I mean, do I have to rely wholly on /etc/smb.conf? > Can that be place some place else? The Samba source package has documentation on how you can change the default installation options. If you use a prebuild binary, then you are stuck with whatever file placing conventions were used. > > > 2)Proper mapping of samba users and unix users. It's usually done > while > > configuring samba. > > Suppose it is a single user machine (runlevel 1, not multiuser) and > there is nothing called /etc/passwd? Then what? > Can I store the userid/password for a single user in a file other > than /etc/passwd? > Does the passwd have to be encrypted? Yes. more details in the Samba docs. > > > 3)Proper file system permission on linux file systems. > > Thats fine :) > But I think that wouldn't matter much on a single user machine, isn't > it? No. But there are other things to worry about if 'root' is the only user on the machine. > > > To access other smaba share all you need to do is normal mount > command like, > > # mount -t smb -ousername=user,password=xxxx //daithan/Songs /Songs > > Provided you have smaba client package installed as indicated above.. > > Does anyone have any idea about the kernel SaMBa client and how it > operates? The kernel has support for smbfs. Along with this, recent versions of mount can mount SMB shares instead of using smbmount. This makes it easy to mount shares at boot time (from fstab) without having to use smbmount. I would suggest you spend some time reading the Samba docs because if you planning on building your own custom version of Samba, you will need to know more about Samba and its installation issues especially when interacting in a Windows Network that uses encrypted passwords (Win2K for example). -Naren _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
