On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 15:36, Lee Wiggers wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:07:09 +1000 > Stephen Kühn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Lee - the easiest - EASIEST way to configure Samba (and/or > > add/remove users and all that fancy jazz) is to use Webmin and the > > SWAT plugin in Webmin - not a joke. > > I know, Stephen, and I've done it like that before, but obviously > didn't learn anything. This time I'm going to understand it. > > I have 7 boxes here that I set up with a combination of webmin and > luck before. I never had full network communication between all > boxes, but didn't care because I had the old original win2k box > serving files to everyone and all was well. > > Well, that box crashed Sunday and I can't get it's replacement or > the Linux boxes together because I didn't understand what put them > together in the first place. > > Hell, I can't even add a smbuser. > > Lee
Ok - long and short of it is that you have to have the same users on the network as you do on the linux box that you want to be the server; you can setup the shares on the server in such a way as to either have them protected by user authentication, domain authentication or share authentication; I personally prefer share authentication as I have customer machines that i back up to the server constantly, so domain or user authentication means diddly to me here. Another issue is having SWAT trim down your /etc/samba/smb.conf so that you don't have to spend three days reading through it; and you can use the functionality in Webmin to synchronise the users for unix=>samba really easy... If you tell more of the story, perchance that would give us more info to set you straight? stephen kuhn - proprietor __________________________________________________________________ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __________________________________________________________________ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __________________________________________________________________ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. serendipity, n.: The process by which human knowledge is advanced.
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