[Lourens Steenkamp <l_steenkamp@yahoo.com>]> I need some help in finding a similar two-brain-cell doc covering the > use of Samba in connecting a Linux workstation to the above mentioned > network.While possible, it is not usually optimal to use SMB for file sharing between Unix/Linux hosts. A much more common solution is to deploy an NFS server on your file server alongside Samba. This is not to say NFS is a particularly elegant protocol (it's not) but it does provide a much more Unix-like filesystem than SMB. This means permission bits and file ownership will work more-or-less naturally. [On file ownership: if you do not have a shared password database between hosts, you may wish to run 'ugidd' -- another ONC daemon -- to cause NFS to match users and groups symbolically instead of numerically. Unfortunately, I do not know if NFS implementations other than Linux's support ugidd.] For more information, investigate NFS -- which is outside the scope of this list. Peter
Hello, I am a happy newbie... With the help of a two-brain-cell doc that I found at www.techrepublic.com I have managed to get a basic Linux-to-Win98 SEII connection working using encrypted passwd's.=20 (After the reading the two-brain-cell doc the SMB Howto's started making sense! I guess that tells you about the level of my Linux / Samba knowledge) I need some help in finding a similar two-brain-cell doc covering the use of Samba in connecting a Linux workstation to the above mentioned network. I am using Redhat 6.2 (2.2.14-50) that has Samba (2.06-9) included. Here are the relevant (I guess) entries in my smb.conf file: [global] =09server string =3D SambaServer =09interfaces =3D 192.168.1.10 =09bind interfaces only =3D Yes =09encrypt passwords =3D Yes =09update encrypted =3D Yes =09smb passwd file =3D /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd =09passwd program =3D /usr/bin/passwd %u =09password level =3D 4 =09username level =3D 4 =09unix password sync =3D Yes =09log level =3D 0 =09log file =3D /var/log/samba/log.%m =09max log size =3D 50 =09socket options =3D TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=3D8192 SO_SNDBUF=3D8192 =09load printers =3D No =09os level =3D 0 =09dns proxy =3D No =09comment =3D %h =09write list =3D @pcusers =09hosts allow =3D 192.168.1. [common] =09comment =3D Common Directory =09path =3D /home/common =09read only =3D No =09guest ok =3D Yes [office52] =09comment =3D StarOffice =09path =3D /home/Applications/office52 =09read only =3D No =09guest ok =3D Yes Regards and Thanks, Lourens. --=20 :=3D' A newbie Linux user Lourens Steenkamp PO Box 3086 Honeydew 2040 Gauteng Republic of South Africa Cell : 083 252 0080 (+27 83 252 0080 International) Fax : 011 475 5313 (+27 11 475 5313 International) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com