"ls /smb" will show all the machines in your workgroup
"ls /smb/<machine-name>" will show the share names for that
machine
You must use a shell that is dynamically linked (or any dynamically
linked command) in order for smbsh to work correctly.
smbclient: Much like an ftp client for SMB shares.
NFS: The "genuine" way to mount something from another unix box.
Expect all sorts of locking problems when sharing a directory with
Samba and NFS in parallel.
>Can Samba recognise both encrypted and plain passwords ?
No. But you don't need that. You only need encrypted passwords.
>If I put encrypted passwords = yes in my smb.conf does that prevent
>the '95 and NT boxes logging in.
No. Although there are a lot of false rumours, in fact there is no
known client having problems with encrypted passwords. Even DOS
clients can access a Samba server running with encrypted passwords.
All those false alerts are coming from people trying to run clients
above W95 with some updates, Win98 or NT above or equal SP3. These
clients won't connect to a Samba server running with _un_encrypted
passwords without some ass-kicking (registry hacks).
>Eventually I want the samba box to control a domain. Can it do this.
Not perfectly yet (with stable releases). You can have a logon server
for your workgroup (a domain is not much more than a workgroup with a
logon server), server based logon scripts (a bit messy with W9x) and
you can have roaming profiles. You can't have that for W2K yet (well,
you might give 2.2.0alpha0 a try, but would you really wan't this
after you outed yourself as a newbee?).
>What does smb.conf need ?
Come on! Have a look into DOMAIN.txt and 'man smb.conf', then ask
understanding questions ...
Regards,
Robert
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