Configuring Samba 2.2.2

[Robert Styma]

Hello Martin,
   You had a bunch of questions.  First, /etc/services is often permission 444
which
makes it read only even to root.  In vi, you save it with :w! instead of just :w
and
it will override the read only if you are root.  Sometimes /etc/inetd.conf also
falls
into this catagory.  If your two windows machines are configured so they can see
each
others disks, they will be able to see the samba server.  The windows 98 machine
should
just work, the Win2000 machine will get more complicated because it expects
someone
(itself or the Samba machine) to be the primary domain controller (PDC).  You
can
gain efficiency by letting your Samba machine or the WIn2000 machine be the WINS
server.
This will speed up finding machines.  There are other ways to do this too.  If
you
can get out to the Internet from your local area network, you will want to
configure DNS
so your windows machines will talk.
   The Samba distribution comes with a free HTML copy of the O'Reilly "Using
Samba" book
which is a good resource and a pretty good read.  I bought the book and went
through it
cover to cover when I was getting started and it helped alot.  It gets installed
in the
swat directory.  I often use it by going into the swat/using_samba directory and
grep'ing
for things.  I then open that section with the browser.

-- 
Robert E. Styma 
Principal Engineer
AG Communication Systems, Phoenix - A subsidiary of Lucent
Email: stymar at agcs.com
Phone: 623-582-7323
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