No wonder I was having some issues. I want to share, not sync--thanks for helping my vocabulary! Tell me the pros and cons of running as standalone vs domain. What do you recommend? Regards, *Clement Martin* 301-331-5872 On 12/13/21 4:08 PM, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:> On Mon, 2021-12-13 at 15:39 -0500, Clement Martin via samba wrote: >> I need to reconfigure my network. Have Linux/Debian 10 except for >> one >> Windows10 computer. I am struggling to get everything to sync >> correctly. >> I would like to share all personal files between all machines, but I >> never get it to work. Is it bad to use the gui? If someone could >> help, >> I'd really appreciate it! >> -- >> Regards, >> >> *Clement Martin* >> >> *C L Martin Small Engine* >> >> 301-331-5872 > Please don't use Gadmin-Samba, it is ancient, was never anything to do > with Samba and it is unmaintained (I believe). > > Lets try and put it terms you might understand. It is like trying to > check the main drive belt tension on a machine that is fully > hydraulically driven. > > It will help if you could describe just what you require. Do you want > to run Samba as standalone servers ? (very similar to Windows 10 home) > Or do you want to run Samba as a domain ? > When you say 'sync', do you mean that literately (the same data on all > servers), or do you mean that you just want to have shares that you can > move data to and from ? > > Rowland > > >
If you only have one windows machine, you definitely want standalone. On 12/13/21 15:26, Clement Martin via samba wrote:> No wonder I was having some issues. I want to share, not sync--thanks > for helping my vocabulary! > > Tell me the pros and cons of running as standalone vs domain. What do > you recommend? > > Regards, > > *Clement Martin* > > 301-331-5872 > > On 12/13/21 4:08 PM, Rowland Penny via samba wrote: >> On Mon, 2021-12-13 at 15:39 -0500, Clement Martin via samba wrote: >>> I need to reconfigure my network. Have Linux/Debian 10 except for >>> one >>> Windows10 computer. I am struggling to get everything to sync >>> correctly. >>> I would like to share all personal files between all machines, but I >>> never get it to work. Is it bad to use the gui? If someone could >>> help, >>> I'd really appreciate it! >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> >>> *Clement Martin* >>> >>> *C L Martin Small Engine* >>> >>> 301-331-5872 >> Please don't use Gadmin-Samba, it is ancient, was never anything to do >> with Samba and it is unmaintained (I believe). >> >> Lets try and put it terms you might understand. It is like trying to >> check the main drive belt tension on a machine that is fully >> hydraulically driven. >> >> It will help if you could describe just what you require. Do you want >> to run Samba as standalone servers ? (very similar to Windows 10 home) >> Or do you want to run Samba as a domain ? >> When you say 'sync', do you mean that literately (the same data on all >> servers), or do you mean that you just want to have shares that you can >> move data to and from ? >> >> Rowland >> >> >
On Mon, 2021-12-13 at 16:26 -0500, Clement Martin wrote:> No wonder I was having some issues. I want to share, not sync--thanks > for helping my vocabulary! > > Tell me the pros and cons of running as standalone vs domain. What do > you recommend?This could all be a bit moot if your Windows 10 is the 'Home' edition, they cannot join a domain. Samba running as a Standalone server is very similar to running a Windows 10 Home edition, you need to create the same users and groups on all machines, in the Samba case this means creating local Unix users and Samba users, groups can just be Unix groups. This is generally referred to as running a workgroup. Domains are a bit easier, you just run Domain Controllers (one at least, but more is better) and the users and groups are created and maintained there, no need to create any users or groups on the clients. Windows will use these users and groups directly, but Unix will require Samba's smb.conf setting up correctly to map the Windows users and groups to Unix ones, once you have this working, you then just use the main part of the smb.conf on all other Unix machines (with different shares). This might all seem a bit daunting, but it is fairly easy, once you get your head around it. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Rowland