On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:03:27PM +0000, Daniel wrote: > I recently took a class for running MS Servers. My trial edition of > Server 2003 has expired. I would like to run a linux based server > (Possibly Ubuntu), and I would like to know where to start. I will > only be using this server on a home newtowrk. My bigest question is > this: Computers using Microsft operating systems will have to connect > to this server. I need to know how to get started with this project. I > have had some experience with using Fedora as a primary operating > system on a laptop.
The program you want to use is samba, which provides services to MS clients. There's a lot of documentation on samba--one suggestion I have is to avoid using SWAT, though it's recommended by some docs. If you use Fedora or CentOS, there's almost certainly a chapter on it in the online RedHat Deployment guide. Yup, there is. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-samba.html Now, that is for a RedHat based (RH, Fedora or CentOS) system. If you do use Ubuntu, they almost certainly have their own guides--some of the tools will be different. (This is one reason I prefer to stay away from system-specific tools and just edit the smb.conf file myself.) On Samba.org there's a good guide as well, http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ (I think that will be the easiest for you, and there's a guide to fast starting for the impatient.) I have a very basic, but outdated page, at http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/samba.html I think it's fairly easy to get a basic samba setup working these days, but it's hard to say if it's really easy or if it's just something I've had to do so often that I've forgotten the pitfalls. For instance, I'm sure you find it almost reflexive now to set up remote access in Win2003 server--I always have to go to the help pages because I've only done it a few times--at my job, there's an MS guru and it's usually his job, but sometimes falls to me when he's busy. (Hrrm, bad example actually, since it's probably easier to quickly find the help page and MS docs tend to be pretty good these days.) One other quick suggestion--since it seems as if samba's new to you, you might be better off starting with Fedora or CentOS rather than Ubuntu. My logic here is that this way, you're only dealing with one new thing at a time, and one of those will be more familiar to you than starting fresh with Ubuntu. For example, you might say, gee, what's Ubuntu's equivalent of yum. You can quickly find the answer, but it's simpler when you're using a system with yum. (The answer to that one is apt-get.) Just basic things. For instance, services are started differently, etc. etc. For myself, narrowing down the new things I have to learn helps me. For example, my boss told me to figure out how to do something--I did it first on a BSD box, because I'm more familiar with BSD. Once I figured out how it worked there, I was able to move it to our CentOS server. Hope at least some of this excess verbiage is useful. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: She's playing you. She tried to kill you. Angel: That was just. . . That was just a cry for help. Buffy: A cry for help is when you say Help in a loud voice. To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
