Cheers, Ric, Actually Swat came up with absolutely no sweat. I nearly fell off my chair I was so happy with it (not having been able to find it for RedHat 7.2).
Seeing all the options clearly laid out made the job a breeze. I'm up and running with Samba :-) Now, if someone would only code up my "hide inaccessible directories" option for Samba I'd be as happy as a pig in poop :-) j. ================== At 10:08 PM 12/20/01 -0800, you wrote: >Julian; >You might want to look into getting swat working, and use that to >configure samba. It deffinately shortens the configuration time. Samba can >be a bear. There has been a lot of mail about it lately, check the >archives as well. > >Ric > >PS: Glad to hear you got it installed & running! Ya just gotta watch those >prompts & options. If ya miss the wrong one, <pfft!> yer toast. :) > > > >Julian Opificius wrote: > >>Hi Ric, >> >>>PS: Julian; You're good sport. You'll do OK with this stuff! :) >> >>Cheers Ric - you too :-) >>b.t.w. In the past hour or so I went back and reinstalled Mandrake 8.1. I >>was a lot more studious of options, and managed to get the installer >>accept the partitions I'd created in System Commander (a simple /boot, /, >>/swap setup for now) and things went OK. >>My just-updated System Commander 7 saw the install (mind you, I was >>previously at SC2000, which didn't). >>Only problem was that my CD-ROM drive refused to see my 2ns and 3rd CDs. >>I burned 'em myself, and Windows see's them. I think I've seen some >>mention of this before on the list, that sometimes the faster readers are >>a bit fussy of home-brew CD-Rs. >>Anyway, I'm now trying to get Samba to work. A Linux share I created was >>showing upon the Linux box for a while, but then it all went away. >>I'm really thinking it's Windows, because when I rebooted my RedHat >>install to cross-check, the shares from that install aren't working >>either! All I get when I try to access the Linux box in the browser is an >>invitation to put in a password for the IPC$ share! >>I'll keep poking at it ;-) >>j. >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to >>http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > >-- >Ric Tibbetts > >Linux registration number: 55684 >If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to >http://counter.li.org/ > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ============================== Julian A. Opificius. 802 Fawn Road, Elk River, MN 55330. Home: 763.441.1291, Cell: 763.360.5919 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 3268206 ==============================
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