On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 12:30 -0500, Bob Hartung wrote: > Hi all, > I have a running install of Redhat 8 that is about to be upgraded. > There is a complex Samba share with users set up my someone else and I > am new to Samba. I have a couple of questions. > > 1. Can I copy the smbpasswd file and smb.conf file from the old set up > to Fedora 8? ---- Yes, you can copy smbpasswd and smb.conf from old setup to new setup. I wouldn't expect it to work completely though... executing 'testparm -s' will be useful for you. I vaguely recollect Fedora 8 being samba-2.2.x and that is going to have some issues with upgrade to samba-3.0.2x There is information about samba upgrade from 2.x to 3.x at http://www.samba.org/samba/docs - see the 'Official How-To' ---- > 2. Does every user with acces to the Samba share have to have an > account on the machine proper or can this be accomplished within Samba? ---- no - samba requires both a samba and a unix account Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
