Hi John, I would just follow the SAMBA documentation in setting up the share, /shared folders,
then on the windows clients you may have to tweak the security settings in the local security policy manager, (but windows out of the box for domestic settings) if your windows boxes are controlled by a Windows Domain then you may need to talk to the windows admin to relax / enhance authentication settings and SMB signing settings in the group policy ) but a typical windows setup should just ask you for a username and password to connect to the setup samba share keep it simple for now the eventlog (system event log) with the following windows command eventvwr will spew errors if there are a mismatches in your security settings and you will get hints by looking up errors as you see them, I hope this helps Tom Smyth On 18 July 2018 at 16:29, John Long <codeb...@inbox.lv> wrote: > @tom @solene > > Thanks guys. I'll look into Samba. I hope it won't turn out to be a > typical Windows nightmare. > > Are there any reliable setup guides on the net? > > I will basically want to just make a couple of directory trees > available read-only. > > Thanks, > > /jl > >
