Warner, you'll want to edit your samba configuration file on your main
server.
It is most likely found in /etc/samba/smb.conf
Hopefully you have some sort of local firewall that protects your local
systems from general internet traffic. That would be important.
There should be a section near the bottom of the file that provides
configuration details for different shares. Each share name is contained
within square brackets. So for example the home directory for each user
would have configuration details underneath the [home] line in the file.
Here are some settings that might help you there:
[home]
browseable = yes # This allows anyone to find the share when browsing
the network
writeable = yes # This allows anyone to be able to write or delete files
[printers]
browseable = yes
printable = yes
printing = cups
path = /var/spool/samba
This should help you get things going forward. There are lots of other
configuration options for samba and it's possible that some others may
need to come into play here in order to give you the setup that you
really want but this should get you started well.
Dan
Warner White wrote:
Any suggestions about how I get the system going without passwords?
And, further, one of my linux machines is fully accessible and
visible, while my main machine will show only My files, Documents,
Print$ and Allusers?
I have enough of Samba working that I can move files around, and I'm
doing ok, but I really would like to have my wife able to print things
via the network.
I've googled ubuntu sites and I'm sure an answer is there, but there's
so much stuff that it's hard to find what I want, and you guys have
been a lot more helpful in the past.
While I'm at it--any ideas about how to sync the Documents folders on
two linux machines? I was using SimpleBackup and it restored some
important files for me, but it moves at a snail's pace (an hour or two
for each restoration!, with even the smallest of files), and for some
reason it did not backup the last month even though I am good about
running backup every night. I got most of my stuff back by copying
from one machine to the other; so I'm very interested in backup by sync.
Warner
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