On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 11:33:28PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 17:28 -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> > The other obvious choice would be Samba, which would have advantages since I > > sometimes boot my laptop into Windows XP. I also hear it's more secure than > > NFS (?) but much harder to set up. > > It's really not that hard at all. On a debian system, to share out home > directories with full read/write permissions: > > apt-get install samba > edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and under the [homes] section, set "writable = > yes" > as root, run "smbpasswd -a username" for a user who should be able to > access their home > > then from a client "smbmount //server/<username> /mnt/point -o > username=<username>" > > pretty simple really, repeat the smbpasswd part as needed for each user. I know this was written weeks ago, but I just got around to trying it. MAN, that was easy. Following your instructions, I got Samba working from my Sarge tower to my XP Home laptop in literally under two minutes, including the download time for Samba. When I checked in the Windows Explorer, I found not only my home directory but my CUPS-queued printer automatically visible! This was really easy and really useful: thank you very much, Mark. Stephen Patterson had raised the issue of using NFS in addition to Samba to retain permission information. I suppose I could, but I think that in cases where that matters I'll just use a tar/untar in addition to Samba. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go thank the Samba team. This is really cool stuff. Thanks to everyone who answered my original question. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
