On Thursday 07 February 2008 16:36:57 Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 11:13 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 February 2008 19:28, Craig White wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 14:18 -0500, Dean Maluski wrote: > > > > CentOS 5.1 > > > > I was just trying to add users and shares to Samba from GUI > > > > interface. I've already added users from command line. > > > > Regardless, when I go to select users the existing users is blank. > > > > When I add a user if it already exists I get a complaint that user > > > > exists. If I add a new user from GUI it does not get added to the > > > > blank list. > > > > OK I just added a user from gui, applied it [HIT OK] > > > > went back and tried to add user again but when hitting [OK] > > > > complained that user exists. Seems things are working except listing > > > > existing users in interface. > > > > I can live with this but I'm about to upgrade a server at work and > > > > ultimately I was hoping my Windows Sys Admin could manage to > > > > administrate Samba. I don't think this will be possible without a > > > > GUI. > > > > > > ---- > > > personally, I've found webmin to be useful (not part of standard > > > packaging but is in dag repository) http://www.webmin.com > > > > > > Webmin can be configured to add posix/samba users at same time and/or > > > convert posix users to samba users > > > > I have rpmforge enabled, but yum doesn't list webmin. Is this the wrong > > repo? > > ---- > you may be right...they might have dropped it. It was clear that they > weren't keeping up with the releases which is why I stopped using > rpmforge's version anyway. > > You can get tarball or rpm version directly from http://www.webmin.com > > Note: > > before you install webmin, install perl-Net-SSLeay > yum install perl-Net-SSLeay > > if the webmin installation detects that package is installed, > connections are all done via SSL (heavily recommended) > > that package is indeed in rpmforge > OK, Craig. I've done it that way before, so no big deal. Thanks for the hints too. I guess that explains why one time I had it installed without SSL. Anne
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