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SAMBA help
Name: John S. Date: February 17, 2003 at 11:28:50 Pacific OS: RH 7.2 CPU/Ram: 192 MB RAM 9.8 GB HD
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I downloaded and installed samba fine. I have 2 machines, one is just windows 98 and this one is dual booting RH 7.2 and Windows ME. I setup my network and everything goes fine in windows98 to windows ME. I need help on geting the network going between the Win 98 machine RH 7.2 . I have no clue as how to setup the smb.conf file. I just need a simple one. To access files from each machine and be able to set file permissions. No users just a passwd to access a file. Then how to get samba up and running and how to get my Windows 98 machine setup for it. I dont wont a domain controller. Just workgroup. The workgroup name is HOME NETWORK. I already looked through the man pages and docs but they just confuse me. Thanks -John
Name: Gene Date: February 17, 2003 at 11:55:06 Pacific
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You can't password protect individual files but you can assign shares to users or groups. This will get you access to your linux box if you have a directory called /shares
[global] netbios name = SERVERNAME workgroup = HOME NETWORK security = share encrypt passwords = yes [disks] path = /shares writeable = yes browseable = yes public = yes
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Response Number 2
Name: John S. Date: February 17, 2003 at 18:24:50 Pacific
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ok thats all good(smb.conf file is done) do u know how to get it setup on my machine (to get it running) and then how to setup my windows 98 machine to work with it etc. ? Thanks -John
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Response Number 3
Name: 3Dave Date: February 18, 2003 at 03:01:35 Pacific
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To start the service, depending on your system try: # service smb start or # /etc/init.d/smbd start
You also have to add linux users to samba: # smbpasswd -a username
You should now be able to connect from win->lin
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Response Number 4
Name: John S. Date: February 18, 2003 at 07:40:25 Pacific
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I did every thing you said above but to no luck. I added a user (john) etc and that worked out well. I typed service smb start and it started 2 services and said they were ok. So it should work. I rebooted this computer and the other one. I login on this comp into john then went to the other computer (which was STILL rebooting). I went into network neighborhood but the machine (the one im on now, running samba) was not there. I have no clue why it isn't. -John
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Response Number 5
Name: 3Dave Date: February 19, 2003 at 01:47:38 Pacific
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Perhaps the samba services didn't restart when you rebooted. Try "/etc/init.d/smbd start" again, then on the windoze box, log in as john to the same workgroup, bring up a run dialog and type "\\192.168.0.1\" or whatever the IP of the linux box is.
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