Hi to all! My name is Doug Warren and I am a new linux user/admin. I have installed mandrake 70 with the following servers... 1. ftpd 2. samba(smbd) 3. httpd(apachy web server) 4. sendmail 5. crond 6. telnet support. And more... I am blind and intend to use a telnet connection at least in the beginning to configure my server setup's. I will setup the emacspeaks server for speech output. But for now any advice as far as connectivity with my win98 machine is greatly appreciated. This network is going to be used primarily for web hosting of my own consulting site and my music-download site. I am reading up on samba configuration. I mainly want to get the samba connection going ASAP so I can use my windows screen reader for voice output so I can be independent from the reliance on sighted help. If anyone has a plain text document with all the current samba documentation in one document, please let me know where I can download such a beast. If you have one handy, please email a copy to doug@ga.prestige.net Thanks for your time and effort, Doug PS... Help me to free the Bill Gates chains which keeps me using that inferior microcrap stuff. Thanks again... -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Doug Warren wrote:> If anyone has a plain text document with all the current samba > documentation in one document, please let me know where I can download > such a beast.On redhat6.x you have most docs in /usr/doc, so the samba docs would be something like: /usr/doc/samba-2.0.6/docs/textdocs Not sure where mandrake stores it, but probably somewhere similar. Those docs would probably be the "plain" samba docs, not necessarily with any modifications that the mandrake distribution has made. Getting all of the samba docs as one file would then be something like cat * > my-big-textfile in that directory. But was that really what you wanted? The samba docs cover a lot of different areas ... I don't think they are meant to be read from top to bottom. I have found that reading the comments in the configuration file smb.conf (normally /etc/smb.conf) and man smb.conf gets you a long way to having it up and running. And if you can't find the docs locally you have them on the samba site. My local mirror is at: se.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs Also this page is nice: home.germany.net/101-69082/samba.html It is lynx friendly and has a table of contents so you can jump to the part matching your problem. /Urban