On 2006-12-14 06:12, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > david rankin wrote: > >> <snip> >> (1) useradd joe >> (2) smbpasswd -a joe >> enter password: blow >> (3) then make sure that you define a valid share in /etc/samba/smb.conf >> >> <snip> >> > > <snip> > > Not meant to be a put down, but sometimes I think the Oldtimers don't > realize just how powerful the GUI has become. They learned in CLI and > that's how they know to do it best. NOT a bad thing. Probably much > Don't sell anyone short. One other thing that the CLI is, it is fast, particularly if you keep a console or 6 open and readily available. Contrast this with a GUI-based application, which requires extra time to load and initialize. If you are adding a single user, it is a lot faster to pop over to a console and type a few commands.
BTW, you certainly are not using user authentication in your Samba configuration. Yast has no provision for adding a Samba user; for that, you must use the command line, or you can use SWAT, the Samba web configuration tool (http://localhost:901, if you have swat running). There is nothing else that I am aware of. SWAT is a much better tool than is Yast for administering a Samba server. It better be, being designed solely to do that task. Maybe some future version of Yast will be able to do everything that SWAT can do, but probably not. Configuring your system to run SWAT is definitely something you can do in Yast, and should do, and it is easy: Yast/Network Services, network services (xinetd). Find "swat", and simply toggle its status to "on". However, there is a downside to SWAT too: In the manual, we find this remark: "WARNINGS swat will rewrite your smb.conf(5) f <http://localhost:901/swat/help/smb.conf.5.html>ile. It will rearrange the entries and delete all comments, include= and copy=/// /options. If you have a carefully crafted smb.conf then back it up or don't use swat!" There are indeed some things for which the command line is the only option, so best you learn that as well. -- The best way to accelerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s² -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
