Les Mikesell wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
Your best bet is to learn how to edit that file (/etc/samba/smb.conf) by
hand.
You can test the file for errors with this command (as root) from the
command line:
I think Johnny's comments apply to several of the RH configuration
tools. They're fairly basic and seem to me to be present just so that
some beancounter can check a box, "Got that: [X]." I have over 20
system-config-* tools installed; only one (system-config-network)
seems useful, and the TUI version of that's broken. The LVM and
SELinux tools might be useful, I've never had their need.
I think webmin is a better approach if you don't want to edit
the files directly, but I haven't used that much either. What
I'd really like to see is just a syntax checker for every config
file and a scheme to automatically run it *before* killing the
service that won't restart with the bad file. Webmin is only
so-so at helping you make changes - you basically have to
understand all the choices anyway, but it does keep you from
making stupid typo's like you can in a text editor or things
like putting #'s instead of ;'s as comments in a dns zone file.
I've used webmin too, but don't like it much.
The best I've seen for Linux doesn't apply to RH systesm; it's SUSE'
YAST which installs and configures everything, and if you try to
configure something that's not installed, it will offer to install it
for you. It has some bugs, and I managed to injure my LDAP config with
it, but it makes a decent effort at covering everything.
Probably the best I've seen is Apple's tools, Workstation Manager and
User Manager I think they're called, for configuring its servers. One
uses the same tools locally or remotely, including over a VPN. Against
them is that they don't try to do everything - I don't recall anything
to configure oss such as Apache (but LDAP is convered). On buying a book
I found they're basically GUI wrappers for command-line tools, so I can
sit at my CentOS VI box typing at Big Mac.
For Printers, _I_ use CUPS itself, the web interface is fairly usable &
works from anywhere you can address the CUPS server, and again there are
command-line tools to control stuff. The CUPS in RHEL5 even seems to
have hardware autodetection.
Set CUPS to browse (I generally use vim for this if it's not already
done) and it automatically finds all CUPS printers on the LAN, and I
pointed one CUPS server at CUPS at work (via a VPN) and I could
instantly print on printers at the office from all machines.
For SAMBA there's SWAT which, as it comes from samba.org, should be
complete, but I use SAMBA so rarely I really coulnd't say. gvim's my
usual gui here:-)
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Cheers
John
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