samba

[Paladin9]

Now I am trying to use samba, and I am really lost.  In windows, to share a folder you just right click on it, and tell it to share, and then modify it however I you want.  How do I do this in linux with samba?  What are the steps involved to share a folder with windows computers? also, the only conf file my slackware computer had was smb.conf.sample in /etc/samba.  I edited the file name to get rid of the sample thing so is samba reading it now?  Where do I put it?  HELP!!!!!

[WMD]

Well I don't use Samba, however, I do know that when you delete the "sample" part, the file is set.  But you will have to configure it, of course.

[Master of Reality]

hmmm.. .well in fedora there is a GUI configuration tool for samba.... but now ...youll have to edit that file.

It should be named smb.conf

erm.. what do you want to share. This is more secure than winders...

You could set it to just share users home directories, and they have to login to get to it.

Or you could set it up so that a Guest user can see/edit your home dir so there is no password.

Or you could share your root dir "/" but i dont see why youd wwant to.

I have my home directory and my /music directory shared. You can also change the permissions so that its read-only or read and write. or read and write but not change directories. Or whatever youd like.

[solo]

Well once you install samba from your favorite source (APT for RPM for RPM distros) then browsing should work fine in Konqueror after you run through the Network Browser set up in kcontrol. Sharing folders SHOULD be just as easy with Konqueror at least by going into Properties and checking the Share box, but I haven't actually tried it and I don't believe it at the moment. Try it though, maybe it will work.

For GNOME users, I dont care. I dislike GNOME anyway.

[Kintaro]

/etc/samba/smb.conf is where the config

read it, its pretty self explanitory to set up.

Or get webmin, which will make setting it up a peice of piss.

(especially migrating your UNIX users to Samba)

[Paladin9]

how do I restart or just start samba, and how do i set it to start when the system starts?