Is samba what is used when you have a linux box on a LAN along side
windows computers so that your linux box has a directory in the 'network
neighborhood'?
Yes, and it's wunnerful! You can use a program called "swat" to remotely manage your samba box from any telnet capable machine on your network. You have to enable swat by going into your inetd.conf file (in /etc) and removing the "#" from the line that says something like
"swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /user/bin/swat /swat"
You need to read the documentation for Samba to use it with Win98 or WinNT though, as a change needs to be made to your registry to allow WInxx to send clear-text unencrypted passwords to the Linux box. The instructions from the smb-HOWTO on my SuSe 6.3 distribution say:
"Using the registry editor(regedit) create the registry setting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP
Add a new Dword value:
The above is for Win98. PLEASE look at the SMB-HOWTO BEFORE you make changes so you know what is happening, and so you doublecheck the above.
Then telnet to 192.168.0.9:901 and there you are! Try it, you'll like it. If you have not installed the samba packages however, you need to do that. You can start/restart/stop SMBD and NMBD from the Swat utility if you want. I haven't bothered to make it start up on boot yet, but will when I figure out how. For now, since my Linux box NEVER crashes, I ain't worried!
Have fun with Samba! I use a 486dx2-66 with 16m memory and a couple old SCSI-1 drives as a file server for my home network, and it works great! Another item you may wish to install is WEBMIN. Seth Cohn helped me get mine setup last night at the group grope, and it is even cooler!
Also, does anyone know of a GUI ftp client that can do scp?
Not sure what scp is, sorry
Regards, Jim Darrough
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