If you really want to learn about samba, then I'd suggest you read the samba book on the Orily (probably didn't spell that right) publishers web sight. I can alternatively send you the zip file of it if you'd like. Greg On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:39:40PM +0100, rjc wrote: > Not really sure what questions to ask here. I've tried to configure Samba on > my linux server. I want to just make a share on the server browsable via > windows explorer which allows me to access my apache config files from > windows. I'm the only one using the server, so don't have to worry about > configuring home directories and multiple users on the same share or any of > that stuff. I just want a simple share, writable by only me, browsable from > windows. One question before I give any details however, is this gunna > really work for me -- if I'm editing apache config files from, say, notepad, > what will happen with respect to line termination. linux/unix uses carriage > return, windows uses crlf. Does samba perform translation on the fly? Will > this totally break the files? > > General Configuration Notes > 1). Logged in as root, I started both smbd and nmbd from the command line, > 2). I used the default configuration file, changing the domain to reflect > our local NT domain. > 3). I added something like the following: > [apacheman] > valid users root rjc > browseable = yes > writable = yes > > When I tried it with smbclient, and give it the password, it tells me > something about "tree connect: server error, unable to connect", or some > such. Windows sees the host (shows up in network neighborhood) but gives a > "share not found" error when I open it. When I try and mounse it with > something like: > windows> net use \\barajas\apacheman > I get a share not found error. > > Am I doing mostly the correct thing here? Have I missed anything obvious? > > Thanx in advance! > > Rich > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
