Our school needs to replace our Novell server. We have a collection of XP Pro computers and a few XP Home, Win98, Win95 and Win2000 computers. All we need is file sharing. Can Samba be setup so that all these computers can access a file share (F:\ or G:\) and run the program on the client pc? What would be the minimum HW required for Samba server? Greatly thankful I am! Craig
> Our school needs to replace our Novell server. > We have a collection of XP Pro computers and a few XP Home, Win98, Win95 > and Win2000 computers. > All we need is file sharing. > > Can Samba be setup so that all these computers can access a file share (F:\ > or G:\) ?and run the program on the client pc? >Yes of course.> What would be the minimum HW required for Samba server?This depends on what type of performance you need. You can run samba on 2W arm based cpus if you want. John
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:47:34PM -0500, Craig Ham wrote:> Our school needs to replace our Novell server. > We have a collection of XP Pro computers and a few XP Home, Win98, Win95 > and Win2000 computers. > All we need is file sharing. > > Can Samba be setup so that all these computers can access a file share (F:\ > or G:\) and run the program on the client pc?Yes.> What would be the minimum HW required for Samba server?Depends on the client load. Shouldn't be much - you should be able to use any generic Linux distro. Jeremy.
Please send all questions to the list as well. I can not always answer in a timely fashion. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Craig Ham <mrcham at wsa.net> Date: Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] Newbie question but an Easy one To: John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> John So I've got Ubuntu and Samba server up and running. I create a user in linux and on samba, both same username and password. I get to a workstation and double click the server name, I enter the samba username and password but fail to log in. What am I missing? On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:51 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:> > > Our school needs to replace our Novell server. > > We have a collection of XP Pro computers and a few XP Home, Win98, Win95 > > and Win2000 computers. > > All we need is file sharing. > > > > Can Samba be setup so that all these computers can access a file share (F:\ > > or G:\) ?and run the program on the client pc? > > > > Yes of course. > > > What would be the minimum HW required for Samba server? > > This depends on what type of performance you need. You can run samba > on 2W arm based cpus if you want. > > John-- Mr. Craig Ham Technology Coordinator Westminster Schools of Augusta 3067 Wheeler Road Augusta, GA 30909 (706) 731-5260 x2314 Fax (706) 731-5274 -- John M. Drescher
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 03:36:03PM -0500, Craig Ham wrote:> Jeremy > So I've got Ubuntu and Samba server up and running. > I create a user in linux and on samba, both same username and password. > I get to a workstation and double click the server name, I enter the samba > username and password but fail to log in. > What am I missing?Please ask questions like this on the samba at samba.org mailing list. For a short answer, you need to ensure that the Samba users is created using smbpasswd -a username, with the same Windows password. Jeremy