samba - Jan 2003 - The use of Samba

Now that I have Samba all set up and working well with all the machines I have 
- some linux, some Win98, some WinXP ,  what more can I do with Samba than 
just allow access to each of these machines. 

Right now I can sit at any machine and access any others. I can move files 
around I can play music files from any machine and I can print on any Printer 
that is in the network.

What more can I look forward to??  Or is this it??

-- 
T.L.Gervais
Coldbrook, NS
Canada.

you can use samba as a domain controller and print server too... 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Gervais [mailto:ve1drg@av.eastlink.ca]
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 7:45 AM
> To: samba@lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] The use of Samba
> 
> 
> 
> Now that I have Samba all set up and working well with all 
> the machines I have 
> - some linux, some Win98, some WinXP ,  what more can I do 
> with Samba than 
> just allow access to each of these machines. 
> 
> Right now I can sit at any machine and access any others. I 
> can move files 
> around I can play music files from any machine and I can 
> print on any Printer 
> that is in the network.
> 
> What more can I look forward to??  Or is this it??
> 
> -- 
> T.L.Gervais
> Coldbrook, NS
> Canada.
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On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 04:45, Ted Gervais wrote:
> Now that I have Samba all set up and working well
> Right now I can sit at any machine and access any others.
 
> What more can I look forward to??  Or is this it??
	Here are some thoughts, Ted.  Mostly if you're bored :-)

1)  Move Samba/PDC over to using LDAP.  Check that this works.

2)  Then, move your Linux box(es?) over to using the same LDAP for
authentication.  One trick I found useful is to open two consoles to
your target machine, leaving one firmly SSH'd in (so you can recover
when the other terminal gets locked out :-O ).

	Now, you will be enjoying one single point of maintenance (LDAP) for
all your Win/Lin users.  Sooner or later, though, a Win user will try to
log into a Linux box, and you'll see an error about lack of a
home-directory, or no shell, or no .profile, or some such...

3)  Assuming that your Samba setup gives each Windows user a home-dir
upon login, it's now time to duplicate that in Linux.  Server uses
"exports" file, client will use Automount (auto.home).  Now, the same
home-dir is available on both Win and Linux logins.

	(seeing as you're also a ham - I'm VA7GP, and VA7SFU for Simon Fraser
University) - you could hook your HF radio to your Linux box.  Run twpsk
to experience PSK-31 data-over-radio, or gmfsk for either RTTY or
MFSK-16.  While this has next-to-nothing to to with Samba :-) it's a
great way to pass some indoor winter  months :-) ).

	-Gord

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