Samba Help - I'm a Samba Newbie

[Gregory Nowak]

If you really want to learn about
samba, then I'd suggest you read
the samba book on the
Orily (probably didn't spell that right) publishers web sight.
I can alternatively send you the zip file of it
if you'd like.
Greg


On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:39:40PM +0100, rjc wrote:
> Not really sure what questions to ask here. I've tried to configure Samba on
> my linux server. I want to just make a share on the server browsable via
> windows explorer which allows me to access my apache config files from
> windows. I'm the only one using the server, so don't have to worry about
> configuring home directories and multiple users on the same share or any of
> that stuff. I just want a simple share, writable by only me, browsable from
> windows. One question before I give any details however, is this gunna
> really work for me -- if I'm editing apache config files from, say, notepad,
> what will happen with respect to line termination. linux/unix uses carriage
> return, windows uses crlf. Does samba perform translation on the fly? Will
> this totally break the files?
> 
> General Configuration Notes
> 1). Logged in as root, I started both smbd and nmbd from the command line,
> 2). I used the default configuration file, changing the domain to reflect
> our local NT domain.
> 3). I added something like the following:
> [apacheman]
> valid users root rjc
> browseable = yes
> writable = yes
> 
> When I tried it with smbclient, and give it the password, it tells me
> something about "tree connect: server error, unable to connect", or some
> such. Windows sees the host (shows up in network neighborhood) but gives a
> "share not found" error when I open it. When I try and mounse it with
> something like:
> windows> net use \\barajas\apacheman
> I get a share not found error.
> 
> Am I doing mostly the correct thing here? Have I missed anything obvious?
> 
> Thanx in advance!
> 
>                     Rich
> 
> 
> 
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