On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 04:12:07PM +0000, Phillip Deackes wrote: > 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!)?
Bill McCarty's book on Debian gives a fairly simple explanation of Samba: http://antiweb.org/translation/debian/ch10_03.html And this LJ article gives a reasonably simple explanation of samba passwords: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2717 HTH Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com
