hi ya philip
there is a couple of samba book
Oreilly has a good one
forgot the publisher of theother one..
there is a samba-HOWTO
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html
smbpasswd phillip
allows you to sit on your windows box and print to your windows
docs tothe printer connected to the linux box if it is configured
it allows oyur windows to network neighborhood to see your
exported home dir on the linux box if it is configured
if your linux box can print text and webpages to the printer...
than your windows box should not have any problems printing either
check your samba printer stuff
testparm
set your samba passwd
cd /etc/samba ; smbpasswd -a philip
use smbclient to see if the linux box can see the windoze stuff
smbclient -U% -L localhost
on your windows box...you should be able to drag-n-drop files into your
home dir on the linux box... with all the whacky windows file names
( philip's confidential files.doc )
c ya
alvin
/etc/samba/smb.conf
in the global section...
...
# if you want to automatically load your printer list rather
# than setting them up individually then you'll need this
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
in the home dir section ...
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
path = /opt/home/philip
browseable = no
writable = no
-- add permissions as needed to keep your paranoia happy
....
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Phillip Deackes wrote:
> I have recently added a second NIC to my Debian box and connected a small
> Netgear hub. I have connected a second PC running Windows 98 to the hub.
> My primary network card is connected to a cable modem which uses DHCP to
> obtain dynamic IP address. I have allocated a private internal IP address
> to the second card. I am running squid so that I can point the second PC
> to it and get a basic Internet connection. I did it this way because it is
> simple and I find networking something of a Black Art.
>
> I would now like to be able to print and possibly send files to my Linux
> box from the Windows machine. I have been doing some reading and have
> installed Samba, but have made little progress. I am not sure how to set
> up Samba - I have been through the /etc/samba/smb.conf and made an attempt
> to set up a password with smbpasswd. The trouble is, what exactly am I
> setting the password for? Is it the password I will need on the Windows
> machine to access my Linux box? Do I need shadow passwords (don't even
> know what they are!)?
>
> Does anyone know if there is an idiot's guide to setting this up anywhere?
> A guide which does not assume a great deal of prior knowledge of
> networking?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> --
> Phillip Deackes
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