Re: RTFM pointers for minimum Samba setup

2006-07-13 Thread Henry Ficher
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 01:19:19PM +0300, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: Well, I tried this, but with no success. The thing is, that I don't know what to use in place of "sambabox". I tried using by box's IP address, and the name that comes back from dig -x, but all

Re: RTFM pointers for minimum Samba setup

2006-07-13 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 01:19:19PM +0300, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > Well, I tried this, but with no success. The thing is, that I don't know what > to use in place of "sambabox". I tried using by box's IP address, and the > name that comes back from dig -x, but all I get is: > > The network pat

Re: RTFM pointers for minimum Samba setup

2006-07-13 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
On Thursday 13 July 2006 13:10, Omer Zak wrote: > Another step, which may prove to be necessary is, after step (1) below, > to find and read the document: > /usr/share/doc/samba/diagnosis.html (Debian Sarge) > or > /usr/share/doc/samba-2.2.5/docs/textdocs/DIAGNOSIS.txt (RedHat 8.0) I don't have th

Re: RTFM pointers for minimum Samba setup

2006-07-13 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
On Thursday 13 July 2006 12:46, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 10:07:18AM +0300, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > > Please tell me what I need to learn to get started with a minimum setup > > which will allow me to share files between my Linux box and my XP box. I > > am not sure i

Re: RTFM pointers for minimum Samba setup

2006-07-13 Thread Omer Zak
Another step, which may prove to be necessary is, after step (1) below, to find and read the document: /usr/share/doc/samba/diagnosis.html (Debian Sarge) or /usr/share/doc/samba-2.2.5/docs/textdocs/DIAGNOSIS.txt (RedHat 8.0) and follow instructions to bring up and test the Samba connection.

Re: RTFM pointers for minimum Samba setup

2006-07-13 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 10:07:18AM +0300, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > Please tell me what I need to learn to get started with a minimum setup which > will allow me to share files between my Linux box and my XP box. I am not > sure if this is crucial, but the XP machine is part of a (LDAP) domain.

RTFM pointers for minimum Samba setup

2006-07-13 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
Hi all. First, thanks to everyone for all the suggestions with regards to running XP under Linux. For now, I have received a second computer on which is installed XP. I access it using rdesktop. Now, I would like to set up samba so I can share files between the two. I started googling the subj