RE: [newbie] SAMBA

[Jose M. Sanchez]

In many ways samba is quite easy to set up...   There are a few "gotcha's" though stemming mostly from unclear documentation...   Read the Samba howtos, paying particular attention to the smb.conf file.   You edit this file and restart Samba... and you are up...   You then add Linux users to Samba via smbadduser.   Finally the Winblows machines are made part of the same domain or workgroup and you use the same login accounts as those you created with smbadduser   If you enable swat, you can do all of this from your Web browser...   If you are running 7.2 look in /usr/share/doc/Samba-x-x-x for information.   -JMS -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Douglas Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 5:55 AM To: Linux Newbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] SAMBA Hi all,   I like the description Newbie virgin. That's me too.   I have one Linux 7.2 box as a server, and two windowz boxes. One has '95 and the other '98. Needless to say, I'm trying to network them. I know this can be done with Samba, but where do they hide the secrets. Can anybody point me at the documentation please?   I love this Linux thing, It's like the good old DOS days. We had a DOS users club and every body had something to contribute. Sadly windowz has taken that away from computing. There are lots of ammeter "experts" who think their gun computer users 'cause they know how to start windowz. Ah, sadly, if Linux does supersede windowz the same will doubtless happen.   Kind regards to you all John. **************************        John Douglas      [EMAIL PROTECTED] **************************