Hello, Today, I was suggested to use Samba by Plone people, meaning I Hadn't heard of Samba before. It seems to be exactly what I have been looking for for some time, but I obviously am completely blank about Samba, so you will excuse my silly question, please. I want to install Samba on my server, but after over two hours searching the site, I found there are plenty of very useful documentation, but not enough tips for a newbie like me to start with. Follows what I have, so you can kindly tell me which installer I must download to start. Apache Linux server (Arvixe) PC running Windows 7 Ultimate with MS Office. My problem arises from the fact that after all the time spent searching and reading I did not understand whether the installers are recommended according to the server or to the PC-OS. Which one shall I use, please? Thank you very much for enlightening me. Cheers, Andrew
On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 01:01 +0100, Andrew wrote:> Hello, > > > Today, I was suggested to use Samba by Plone people, meaning I Hadn't > heard of Samba before. It seems to be exactly what I have been looking > for for some time, but I obviously am completely blank about Samba, so > you will excuse my silly question, please.Perhaps you should explain more what you want to achieve.> I want to install Samba on my server, but after over two hours > searching the site, I found there are plenty of very useful > documentation, but not enough tips for a newbie like me to start with. > > Follows what I have, so you can kindly tell me which installer I must download to start. > > Apache Linux server (Arvixe) > PC running Windows 7 Ultimate with MS Office.I really don't see how either of these have much connection to running Samba on your (presumably Linux) server. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org
Hello, Today, I was suggested to use Samba by Plone people, meaning I Hadn't heard of Samba before. It seems to be exactly what I have been looking for for some time, but I obviously am completely blank about Samba, so you will excuse my silly question, please. I want to install Samba on my server, but after over two hours searching the site, I found there are plenty of very useful documentation, but not enough tips for a newbie like me to start with. Follows what I have, so you can kindly tell me which installer I must download to start. Apache Linux server (Arvixe) PC running Windows 7 Ultimate with MS Office. My problem arises from the fact that after all the time spent searching and reading I did not understand whether the installers are recommended according to the server or to the PC-OS. Which one shall I use, please? Thank you very much for enlightening me. Cheers, Andrew P.S. This is my first use of this help service. I understand that I must receive a copy, as I've sent this message before, but have not received the copy, I presume it might have got lost. Hence, why I am resending. I hope I am not making a mistake.
On 05/10/12 02:01, Andrew wrote: Hi Andrew> Apache Linux server (Arvixe)I think that's a web hosting service no?> PC running Windows 7 Ultimate with MS Office.Do you have a spare computer to install e.g. Linux? If you did, the chances are that samba would be installed by default. Cheers Steve
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 01:01:19AM +0100, Andrew wrote:> Hello, > > > Today, I was suggested to use Samba by Plone people, meaning I Hadn't heard of Samba before. It seems to be exactly what I have been looking for for some time, but I obviously am completely blank about Samba, so you will excuse my silly question, please. > > I want to install Samba on my server, but after over two hours searching the site, I found there are plenty of very useful documentation, but not enough tips for a newbie like me to start with. > > Follows what I have, so you can kindly tell me which installer I must download to start. > > Apache Linux server (Arvixe) > PC running Windows 7 Ultimate with MS Office. > > My problem arises from the fact that after all the time spent searching and reading I did not understand whether the installers are recommended according to the server or to the PC-OS. Which one shall I use, please? > > > Thank you very much for enlightening me.If you install a standard Linux distribution (the most popular are Red Hat, SuSE, Ubuntu or Debian) then it will include a Samba server package (or the ability to add one). I would start there if I were you. Jeremy.