[newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?
hi i'm running 9.2. i've got two boxes that i'm using both of them dedicated both to xp and mdk 9.2. i tried samba once, awhile back.. and it was a very difficult thing for me. if it had not been for a very kind individual on #samba to hold my hand i would not have been able to backup my data. and not all of it could be backed up which really puzzled us both. just curious if there is an easy way to setup samba. kinda like the simple file sharing feature of xp. basically just know the network name, and if absolutely necessary, Admin login and pass. i've never used webmin or swat so i'm not sure if either of these programs would do the trick. just looking an easy way to share my mdk files with a xp machine. i've networked xp to mdk though its been so long i've forgotten how to do that too. need to research that as well. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?
On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 17:02, Arthur Rosene wrote: hi i'm running 9.2. i've got two boxes that i'm using both of them dedicated both to xp and mdk 9.2. i tried samba once, awhile back.. and it was a very difficult thing for me. if it had not been for a very kind individual on #samba to hold my hand i would not have been able to backup my data. and not all of it could be backed up which really puzzled us both. just curious if there is an easy way to setup samba. kinda like the simple file sharing feature of xp. basically just know the network name, and if absolutely necessary, Admin login and pass. i've never used webmin or swat so i'm not sure if either of these programs would do the trick. just looking an easy way to share my mdk files with a xp machine. i've networked xp to mdk though its been so long i've forgotten how to do that too. need to research that as well. Samba should work virtually out of the box The only thing you normally have to change is the Workgroup name, and add your Windows passwords. If you install the drakwizard RPM then your Mandrake Control Centre will contain a set of server wizards. The Samba wizard will install samba for you and change your workgroup name. When the wizard closes it will remind you to run 'smbpasswd -a user_name' for each Windows users who wishes to access their home directories on Linux. Give the *Windows* password of the user. Alternatively install ksambaplugin (from a contrib mirror), and your KDE control Centre will contain a samba server configuration panel. I would not recommend using SWAT to set up samba because it will erase and replace the existing samba configuration file together with all the helpful comments which are embedded in it. HTH derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 11:02:41 -0600 Arthur Rosene disseminated the following: just curious if there is an easy way to setup samba. kinda like the simple file sharing feature of xp. basically just know the network name, and if absolutely necessary, Admin login and pass. i've never used webmin or swat so i'm not sure if either of these programs would do the trick. just looking an easy way to share my mdk files with a xp machine. i've networked xp to mdk though its been so long i've forgotten how to do that too. need to research that as well. If you've got the Samba shares configured already, and easy way to mount and access them is LinNeighborhood. Windows should see Samba shares without any extra effort, they'll show up in My Network Places. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 ++ If I said yes, that would then suggest that that might be the only place where it might be done which would not be accurate ... necessarily accurate ... it might also not be inaccurate, but I mean ... I'm disinclined to mislead anyone. -- Donald Rumsfeld Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 17:27, Derek Jennings wrote: Samba should work virtually out of the box The only thing you normally have to change is the Workgroup name, and add your Windows passwords. If you install the drakwizard RPM then your Mandrake Control Centre will contain a set of server wizards. The Samba wizard will install samba for you and change your workgroup name. When the wizard closes it will remind you to run 'smbpasswd -a user_name' for each Windows users who wishes to access their home directories on Linux. Give the *Windows* password of the user. Just remember that the windows user must have an account on your machine that uses exactly the same login name and password as on the XP box - and it's case-sensitive. If you also install lisa and lin-neighborhood you will easily be able to see the shares available, although you will have to specifically mount and umount. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXdUkkFAvMr/nNX8RAiN1AJ9Upo5adlc3gcTieTk3dJ9umWwEfgCghaiC mJin0ClrDoBQV3g//Fxly78= =XrBJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?
On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 17:47, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 17:27, Derek Jennings wrote: Samba should work virtually out of the box The only thing you normally have to change is the Workgroup name, and add your Windows passwords. If you install the drakwizard RPM then your Mandrake Control Centre will contain a set of server wizards. The Samba wizard will install samba for you and change your workgroup name. When the wizard closes it will remind you to run 'smbpasswd -a user_name' for each Windows users who wishes to access their home directories on Linux. Give the *Windows* password of the user. Just remember that the windows user must have an account on your machine that uses exactly the same login name and password as on the XP box - and it's case-sensitive. If you also install lisa and lin-neighborhood you will easily be able to see the shares available, although you will have to specifically mount and umount. Anne Not quite true. The passwords may be different. That us why the smbpasswd command has to be given to let samba know what the windows password is. Also the user names may be different too if aliases are used, but for a newbie it is less trouble if they are the same. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 12:38 am, JoeHill wrote: Windows should see Samba shares without any extra effort, they'll show up in My Network Places. Yes definitely. If you just want to share folder from samba to your winxp, open /etc/samba/smb.conf and add this at the end of it: [myshare] comment = for win xp access path = /home/yourname public = yes writable = yes create mask = 0765 Then restart samba by as root: service smb restart For your information, setting samba using Webmin is very nice. Yes there are a lot of configuration fields, but you can concentrate on those required fields only. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 01:43:29 up 2:15, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXeNSkp5CsIXuxqURAv81AKCcwon4S7hcdJya/QohlFgmZCQi5QCdGEDu 1KyqPpMOSn9h7CtNvU1NPOs= =6B2X -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 18:24, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 17:47, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 17:27, Derek Jennings wrote: Samba should work virtually out of the box The only thing you normally have to change is the Workgroup name, and add your Windows passwords. If you install the drakwizard RPM then your Mandrake Control Centre will contain a set of server wizards. The Samba wizard will install samba for you and change your workgroup name. When the wizard closes it will remind you to run 'smbpasswd -a user_name' for each Windows users who wishes to access their home directories on Linux. Give the *Windows* password of the user. Just remember that the windows user must have an account on your machine that uses exactly the same login name and password as on the XP box - and it's case-sensitive. If you also install lisa and lin-neighborhood you will easily be able to see the shares available, although you will have to specifically mount and umount. Anne Not quite true. The passwords may be different. That us why the smbpasswd command has to be given to let samba know what the windows password is. Also the user names may be different too if aliases are used, but for a newbie it is less trouble if they are the same. derek Derek - I've no experience with doing this on W2K or XP, but Win98 doesn't allow you to log in as such, in my experience. It just attempts to connect with the existing username and password. I'm not worried about changing anything, but if there is a way around this I would be interested to read about it. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXexEkFAvMr/nNX8RAj6SAJ0TIQb3BefMBpAiGQFQy8jhhr6x+gCgi7EU j3l9xdQ0bJNvf7TA0MdR1Qc= =29XI -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?
Just remember that the windows user must have an account on your machine that uses exactly the same login name and password as on the XP box - and it's case-sensitive. If you also install lisa and lin-neighborhood you will easily be able to see the shares available, although you will have to specifically mount and umount. ok i am having trouble. i used drakwizard to setup samba. i choose not to allow users to share home directories. there was a part about read/write access permissions i did not understand. basically i want anyone who is on WORKGROUP to be able to browse the universal share without login/pass auth on windows machine. not sure if i need something in the permission boxes to get this to work or not. i have restarted samba after every attempt to finish the wizard. i've also tried adding my windows username to permissions along with Arthur Rosene, root, @wheel, @users still did not work. would appreciate any help thank you Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 04:38, JoeHill wrote: If you've got the Samba shares configured already, and easy way to mount and access them is LinNeighborhood. Windows should see Samba shares without any extra effort, they'll show up in My Network Places. You can always, as well, use either Konqueror or Nautilus and type: smb:// ...in the URL field... ...then you can browse the network without having to directly mount anything... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- No man's ambition has a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice. -- John Altgeld Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
