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| In article <GmvJa.118175$x67.5089331@twister.socal.rr.com>, Gordon A. MacDonald wrote: > Does anybody know where I could find a website to tell me how to > configure this file? I don't want to learn what all the options are. A > site where I could simply copy and paste, then edit for my machine would > be good. Or if somebody could post theirs, that would be good too. I > just want to be able to share files over my LAN with a Windows 98 > machine. It really doesn't hurt to look at the documentation a little. You won't go blind. The worst that could happen is that you fall asleep. The easiest way is to use SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool). Become root. Uncomment the line in /etc/inetd.conf that says swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat swat restart inetd with a kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid` and point your favorite web browser at http://127.0.0.1:901. Follow the on-screen instructions to add shares, users and passwords. Be sure to select encrypted passwords if you're running Windows 98 or newer or Windows NT. You want to have a user account on the samba machine for each user that is going to access files or printers from a Windows machine. Also make /etc/rc.d/rc.samba executible to have samba start automatically when you start linux. Samba works quite well. I haven't had a lick of trouble sharing a printer and files with it. |