Alright lads, I'm Rick Masters and I know very little about networks, but for some mad reason I have been given the job of setting up a Linux File Server on an NT network. How the dickens does that work? Anyway I need as much help as you can be bothered to give me. And there is a free pizza in it for the guy who helps me get it working :-) You are all super and great fun (I'm sure). Best Wishes Rick Masters P.S. Tekkies Rule! and stuff like that etc....:-) _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Rick If you are a complete newbie then you can't go wrong with: http://www.linuxdoc.org also, the Samba documentation now includes a rather natty copy of the Using Samba book from O'Reilly - it's now Open Source. Grab your self a copy of Samba 2.0.7 eg: http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba-latest.tar.gz and get reading. You can use Winzip to untar/ungzip the archive. If you have specific problems then this mailing list is the port of call. C heers Jon Gerdes>>> "Rick Masters" <rickmasters@hotmail.com> 03/15/01 10:16am >>>Alright lads, I'm Rick Masters and I know very little about networks, but for some mad reason I have been given the job of setting up a Linux File Server on an NTn etwork. How the dickens does that work? Anyway I need as much help as youc an be bothered to give me. And there is a free pizza in it for the guy whoh elps me get it working :-)
Rick, In addition to "Using Samba", I would recommend the SAMS book "Learning Samba in 24 hours". It's in tutorial form, and an excellent way to get familiar with the product if you have had no exposure to it. Don -----Original Message----- From: JON GERDES [mailto:GERDESJ@gkn-whl.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 6:25 AM To: rickmasters@hotmail.com Cc: samba@us5.samba.org Subject: Re: Whats all this Linux business anyway? Rick If you are a complete newbie then you can't go wrong with: http://www.linuxdoc.org also, the Samba documentation now includes a rather natty copy of the Using Samba book from O'Reilly - it's now Open Source. Grab your self a copy of Samba 2.0.7 eg: http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba-latest.tar.gz and get reading. You can use Winzip to untar/ungzip the archive. If you have specific problems then this mailing list is the port of call. C heers Jon Gerdes>>> "Rick Masters" <rickmasters@hotmail.com> 03/15/01 10:16am >>>Alright lads, I'm Rick Masters and I know very little about networks, but for some mad reason I have been given the job of setting up a Linux File Server on an NTn etwork. How the dickens does that work? Anyway I need as much help as youc an be bothered to give me. And there is a free pizza in it for the guy whoh elps me get it working :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Rick Masters wrote:> Alright lads, > > I'm Rick Masters and I know very little about networks, but for some mad > reason I have been given the job of setting up a Linux File Server on an NT > network. How the dickens does that work? Anyway I need as much help as you > can be bothered to give me. And there is a free pizza in it for the guy who > helps me get it working :-) >Rick, I'm hungry! First off start by reading Using Samba, Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown, Peter Kelly, 1st Edition November 1999 which is INCLUDED as an html doc in the Samba 2.07 distribution. It gives the background and you will become familiar with what you are up against. Samba is awesome and will knock the socks off of NT. Your initial question is way way to broad to rationally answer on this list. Come back with a few more specifics after reading the html doc
While we're on this subject, my only wish is that I could figure out why win2000 is so slow accessing the samba shares on my linux boxes. The linux desktops are 100 times faster accessing the win2000 shares! Maybe I should just run all linux desktops ;-) Ed At 02:19 PM 3/15/2001 -0600, David Rankin wrote:>Samba is awesome and will knock the socks off of >NT.Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin
Yes, yes and yes.... Windows is just slower at resolving these connections than linux workstations.... I have my own feelings as to reasons for this. but they are way too steeped in my contempt for the way Microsoft has developed certain networking standards (thinking the rest of world would just follow suit) for discussion here. Ed>It might be a name resolution issue. Do you have reverse DNS running for >your network, or are all your workstations listed in /etc/hosts? Do you >have hosts allow set in the SMB configuration (which causes name >resolution to be attempted on connect)?Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. -- Ashleigh Brilliant