[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Sorry to hear that you are having a lot of trouble. I don't have that >much experience in setting up samba but when I had to set up a small >samba shared drive I read this document. > > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Samba-Authenticated-Gateway-HOWTO.gz
That's one of the many docs I read which assume you already know all about MS-Windows SMB networking. "You must have a fair knowledge about ... SAMBA and Windows networking and domain controllers" It refers to "the Samba HOWTO Collection" with a broken link to http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html The correct URL is, apparently, http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection which discusses the Primary Domain Controller in Chapter 4. It assumes you already know how MS-Windows office LANs do their authentication and how that relates to shared printers. Domain security account? "Manually creating a Machine Trust Account using this method is the equivalent of creating a Machine Trust Account on a Windows NT PDC using the Server Manager." None of the available Windows users knew what that was about. "What Makes Samba a Domain Member? Guess! So many others do. But whatever you do, do not think that security = user makes Samba act as a domain member. Read the manufacturer's manual before the warranty expires." Gee, that helps a lot. Which is why I'm looking for a tutorial that doesn't assume that knowledge. There's a Debian and Windows Shared Printing mini-HOWTO (Dec. '02) but it doesn't talk about the mysterious proprietary name service. > This should be installed by default in all debian boxes. Perhaps it should. But actually it's in packages doc-linux-html and doc-linux-text. Installed, doc-linux-html occupies 60 MB, so some would argue it should be optional. Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
