Hi group. I am currently interested in Opensuse Leap 15.4 and running a Samba server to predominantly Windows 10 client PCs. This is the system that is going in at my work place, Nene Valley Railway. We are replacing our current system which is basically a group of old PCs running Windows 7 all sharing space on a bigger PC with some added backup capability. The system is old and has never been ‘administered’ so has problems.
A couple of people suggested we do it ourselves with the setup described above running on an HP Server we have had donated. A couple of guys are reasonably knowledgable about Linux and Samba but neither has ever configured a server specifically to do what we want. I know little about Linux though many years ago I knew a bit about Solaris. I know zilch about Samba and even less about the way windows handles shares etc. To help me get to grips with all this I bought myself a secondhand HP Proliant dl380 g7 with 2x Xeon ES560 CPUs it has 3 x 135Gb drives configured RAID5 and 3 x 200Gb drives also configured RAID5 That lot was only £90 from a nice man in Kettering. I have installed SUSE and Samba and edited the samba.conf file to a form that works for my colleague though it doesn’t yet work for me. My Windows clients are not the same as his so no surprises there. My questions are going to be generally around overcoming problems both in the administration and tuning of SUSE and in making the server at least visible to clients. I’m also a sociable sort of person so happy to meet people for drinks, coffee or alcohol. I live in Werrington and don’t mind driving to meet and socialise.
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