Re: [Hampshire] Samba for newbies

Alastair Biggs wrote:
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> Hi people
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> I hope you can provide me with information regarding the delights of samba.
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> Currently I have 2 machines at home one running XP and the other is running Debian Etch ( I use XP machine for gaming). Basically I wish to create a share on my Debian machine and be able to access it through my XP box currently I have installed samba on Etch and have assigned the computer a static I.P I kinda tried some experimentation last night and got as far as seeing my Debian machine in windows but for some strange reason I cannot log into it.
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You might want to check that you have added a Samba user account and
password along with the usual Linux account. Look at 'man smbpasswd'
(and use of the -a switch if adding a new account).

Also check that your WinXP machine is using the same Workgroup name as
the Samba server. I believe the default in English versions of Windows
is "Workgroup".
In smb.conf , under [global], put:
workgroup = WORKGROUP


> I have read various documentation which is often confusing also there is the option of webmin but I wish to learn how to config Samba via the command line.
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> If somebody could walk me through the process of setting up a share just for a standard user I would really appreciate it. Being relativley new to Linux this would be most helpful.



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> Also another question if I wanted to share a drive in windows and access it from Linux how do I go about this? I'm guessing I once again have to use smb.
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If you are using the Samba box itself then just access the directory
where the share resides. Otherwise use the smbclient tools from the
commandline, or if using a desktop try smb4k. I'm sure there are other
tools out there too.

> Many Thanks
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> Ally Biggs
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