I too need help with samba.

[Scott Howell]

Kirk, funny you say that, at work they are planning or were at
least; replacing all nt boxes with Unix boxes running Samba. This would
handle all logins to the netowork as well as printer and file
services. All web servers at HQ are running on Unix boxes unlike some of
our sister installations who haven't any good sense at al.



On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Kirk Wood wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Scott Howell wrote:
> > People, I know getting a quick answer makes it simple, but you won't learn
> > this way. There's a great book at http://www.samba.org and I tell you its
> > good. I setup my Samba server although its no where near its full
> > capabilities,b ut I got it to do what I wanted. 
> 
> Well said Scott. The thing is that few people are even aware of the

> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Scott Howell wrote:
> > People, I know getting a quick answer makes it simple, but you won't learn
> > this way. There's a great book at http://www.samba.org and I tell you its
> > good. I setup my Samba server although its no where near its full
> > capabilities,b ut I got it to do what I wanted. 
> 
> Well said Scott. The thing is that few people are even aware of the

> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Scott Howell wrote:
> > People, I know getting a quick answer makes it simple, but you won't learn
> > this way. There's a great book at http://www.samba.org and I tell you its
> > good. I setup my Samba server although its no where near its full
> > capabilities,b ut I got it to do what I wanted. 
> 
> Well said Scott. The thing is that few people are even aware of the
> abilities of Samba. I certainly wasn't, and still I think there are
> abilities I am not aware of. It goes way beyond simple things such as file
> and printer sharing.
> 
> That said, I would encourage you to use samba for what it was intended and
> designed for. (This means don't use samba to share files between linux
> boxes. NFS is more suited for this.) But name an NT function and samba
> probably has an answer.
> 
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
> 
> Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it.
> 
> 
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