Re: tlug: You mean I'm not the only Samba flunkie...

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sat, 30 May 1998, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 30 May 1998, Sean Bennett wrote:
> 
> > Yokatta!  there are others who haven't figured out Samba either (no offence) - and
> > I thought it was just because I'm a newbie....
> 
> No, it's not just you.  Samba is a pain in the butt.  It provides NT
> Server services and it does a good job, but it certainly doesn't provide
> them with the ease of configuration that NT does.  After I got it set up,
> I later discovered some graphical front ends for it that look good, but
> I've never tried them.  Now that I have it working and have a little
> confidence, they aren't as necessary.  Ain't it always like that on UNIX
> :-) ?
> 
> The post of that was replied to earlier was actually really old(early April), so I
> guess he was digging around in some back archives.  I did get it working,
> but I'm always happy to see more info come out.  Back then, lots of people
> posted lots of advice and good examples from their smb.conf files that
> really got me on the right track.  I'd read the man page and the inline
> comments in smb.conf, but was still kind of in the dark.  The docs make a
> lot more sense *after* you understand what you need to do :-)

The only time I ever had problems with Samba is when I didn't put the
Linux box in the same workgroup as my windows boxes.

> 
> If you run with share=user, however, anyone who wants to get samba access
> to your machine will in fact need a valid userid and password on your
> Linux system.

That's how it should be.  Just because 95/NT has garbage security, no
reason for Linux to.  use the guest account if you want people to trash
your data.. er.. access it w/o passwords.

> 
> On my machine, the only two directories that are accessible on the network
> are one called public-upload and another one called public-download, and
> they are there for people who need to put files on my machine for me to
> edit, or who need to get files that are kept on my machine. 
> 
> If you like, I'll post the relevant parts of my smb.conf file that do
> these things.
> 
> I hope this helps,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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