Mark, Yep, I believe samba is the same across most popular distributions, apart from detailed version numbers.
You also need to setup the firewall. OpenSUSE uses FirewallD,not ufw as used by Ubuntu and Mint. Instructions for starting and stopping the samba processes will also vary with distribution. OpenSUSE Yast2 can be used for basic setup but I needed to manually configure /etc/samba/smb.conf. I have always found samba quite/very tricky to get working plus I find it is usually easier to access a samba share from a Linux PC than a Windows PC. Many times I have changed the samba config file and it has not worked as expected or at all. You really need to stick with it and put plenty of time aside. From a diagnostic viewpoint it is best to first get something that just works and then change one parameter at a time until it behaves in the way that you want it to. Annoyingly, virtually all the examples in the text books and online are very simplistic and therefore to my mind misleading. I have found that typically smb services are difficult/impossible to get working on a TV/set-top box. I use minidlna to serve AV data as it seems to be much better supported and overall less fussy. I reserve samba for when I need to reliably serve data files. I also use sshfs on my Mint desktop to access/manipulate documents on my server. Reluctantly, I needed to enable SMB protocol V1 on Windows before my W10 machine could see my server. Default is "Disabled" as a virus protection feature - remember the NHS virus. Hopefully the machines negotiate to a higher protocol (as they should and the server has been setup to do) as smbv1 is a pretty inefficient and unsecure protocol. I could check this but it works well enough for my setup and I really do not want to spend any more time on it. I chose not to use AD (did not want it on my network or the extra complexity) and do not use host files as I don't like hard-coding server addresses; these decisions probably explain some of my difficulties. Nigel can contact me directly if he has any specific questions and we can feed any generic conclusions to the mailing list if they may be of more general interest. Kind Regards, Clive -- Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
