On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:58:37 +0100, Duncan Lithgow <duncan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just got a message form a charity I know asking me if I could setup a > file/prinetr server for them. I haven't asked yet but I assume they're all on > windows. > > So, samba on a straight forward linux is what I guess I should do, but I'm new > to it all. I've never played with samba ... > > My question is should I agree to set this up? I can simulate the whole thing > from my two computers here at home ... but > > a.) will I be able to adjust to and understand the concepts? > b.) do people fell like helping me through this the fast way? Usually I'd > spend ages reading - but I can't really ask them to wait a few weeks... > c.) would I be doing them a favour saying no and putting them onto someone > else who understands it better, but may charge for setting it up? > > if you say yes to a & b then please help me find a 'quick guide to samba' all > i found on google was a bit too sparce or too deep. > > thanks, Duncan >From an understanding point of view: http://ralphie.perlmonk.org/mosix/simple_samba.html >From a setting it up in Fedora point of view: http://fedoranews.org/tchung/samba/ Yes, its about setting up a printer to share. I know that but look at the default smb.conf. If you turn on the service and have users set up in your smbpasswd then you got /homes shared by default (with browsing turned off). Plus you got this actually pretty nice samba config tool with Fedora. I like how it adds new stuff to the bottom and does not mess with your settings to hard and all that. Take a look at the above links and keep it simple out of the box. Then start to get more complicated as you go. Don't forget to leave yourself a whole in the IPTables firewall as described in the above link. Oh yeah and have fun samba is pretty easy to setup but has a lot of neato features to start messing with once you have an idea of what you are doing.
