David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > On Sun, January 18, 2009 12:14, Ray Clark wrote: > >> Wow. That would be awesome. Some questions stemming out of things I have >> been reading to try to figure this out: >> >> Do I need to join a workgroup (smbadm join -w rnscnet)? What are the >> implications of joining or not joining? >> > > I seem to have missed the beginning of this, but I've been converting from > Samba to CIFS myself on a home NAS system, so I've been working with this. > As I understand it, you either need to be in a domain (meaning having > some system functioning as primary domain controller, and your system > joining that domain), or else you join a workgroup (whatever name the > other systems have established). > > Or you can be a standalone server. Just make sure the service is running, pam.conf is updated and then enable a share.
-- Ian.