Hi Folks,
I am a relatively inexperienced Solaris system admin. We have Samba
version 1.9.15p8 running on our server currently. I assume that it
would be worthwhile for me to upgrade to 2.0. However, I only
generally know about how to keep Samba running, and very little about
installation since someone else installed it. Unfortunately, I can't
seem to find a "Samba Installation for Dummies" type document on
the
web pages. Any suggestions?
Sean McGuire
In a message dated: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 08:32:01 +1100 Sean McGuire said:> Hi Folks, > > I am a relatively inexperienced Solaris system admin. We have Samba > version 1.9.15p8 running on our server currently. I assume that it > would be worthwhile for me to upgrade to 2.0. However, I only > generally know about how to keep Samba running, and very little about > installation since someone else installed it. Unfortunately, I can't > seem to find a "Samba Installation for Dummies" type document on the > web pages. Any suggestions?Well, that depends. How good are you at compiling/installing Open Source Software, and how confident are you in your ability to read unix man pages? Samba is a great piece of software, but it's config file can be a little daunting for people who aren't really used to playing with Open Source sw. That being said, if you need to be supporting Samba, I highly recommend the book, "Samba: Integrating Unix and Windows" by John Blair from SSC Publishing (Available at amazon.com). O'Reilly & Assoc. is also about to release a Samba book real soon now, which I'm sure will also be a must have! In addition, the samba man pages are excellent! In reality, John's book is really nothing more than the man pages that samba ships with. The big difference is that John has painstakingly combed through the man pages, and organized them in a much more logical manner and added a lot of valuable commentary to them. The other major advantage to John's book is that it *HAS AN INDEX* :) which the man pages don't! If you're really comfortable with reading man pages, then they contain all the information you need. I personally, keep John's book right next to my desk at all times :) Next, do you *need* to upgrade to 2.0? If 1.9.15p8 is working and doing what you need it to do, I recommend leaving well enough alone until you get a good feel for how Samba works, how the config file is set up, and you get yourself a copy of the book. One thing I could suggest, if you have the time, is to get a copy of 2.0 and play with it either on a spare Sun, or grab a PC and install Linux on it, then install Samba. That will give you a non-critical system to bang on and play with. Of course, if you're spare time is like mine (non-existant :) this will be tough :) -- Seeya, Paul ---- plussier@baynetworks.com Broadband Technology Division - Bay Networks (now a Nortel Company, Eh? :) If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
Hi. I'm a newbie here and I have some questions to ask : Is there a limit to the number of hosts allowed in the allow hosts directive? Can I replace the IP address in the allow hosts entry, with the user's id (linux user)? The userids will be in the /etc/hosts file. Can I authenticate using NT Server authentication rather than Linux? If possible, any clues to go about it? User sometimes get hang when connecting with a share directory even though his IP address is in the allow hosts list. Why is it so? Part of the share directory section are as below: [dbx] service type=fileservice public=yes comment=dbx file system path=/nfs02/dbx writable=yes only guest=yes create mask=0777 hosts allow=18,37,17,15, 18.37.17.99, 18.37.16.139, 18.37.16.64, 18.37.16.97, 18.37.16.200, 18. 37.16.108, 18.37.16.74, 18.37.17.134, 18.37.16.107, 18.37.17.88, 18.37.17.236, 18.37.17.245 Please send to my email address as well. Thank you very much. Paul Chung (hcsccs@prudential.com.my)
Hey,
I have just dipped into the Samba realm and can't seem to figure some
stuff out. We have a very large internal network here at my university. Just
pop open 'Network Neighborhood' and you are flooded with about 20 groups
each containing anywhere between 1 and 5 computers.
My first question is this: How can I get a listing of all the groups
that are available? I heard something about a master server. How do I found
out what the name of that computer is?
My second question is how can I mount a share via IP? I was able to do
this successfully: smbmount //BLAH/shared /mnt/windows where BLAH is any
computer under any workgroup. Lets say the IP of computer BLAH is
129.116.35.55. How can I use smbmount to mount the shared folder 'music'
of
that computer?
Thanks,
Matthew
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I can ping my Windows computer from samba computer - running RH7.3. I can ping the samba server from windows box - can ping only with IP addresses not names. When I double click on the samba server in Network Neighborhood on Windows box it asks for password to \\Hpomnibook\IPC$. That is the name of the server. I cannot get farther than this. Have set up share as AllFiles - just to get going. I log into Windows computer with same user name and password as the Linux box - except when I login to Unix box as root. I am running Lisa on the Linux box - does this matter? Any help to this lost in Linux person appreciated. David David I. Sommers, Ph.D. Scientific Review Administrator Interventions Review Committee (ITV) National Institute of Mental Health 6001 Executive Boulevard Room 6144, MSC 9608 Bethesda, MD 20892 Rockville, MD 20852 (for express or courier service) 301-443-7861 - voice 301-443-4720 - fax dsommers@mail.nih.gov - email