Samba Newbie

[Lynn Turriff]

I've been lurking here for a month or six weeks or so,
and would just like to point out that the samba docs
are sometimes something less than useful to a linux
newbie.

I have read the docs and man files, and have several
linux manuals, but still can't get my system to
acknowledge my NT4 network, much less communicate with
it. I have reloaded RH 7.1 several times. I can ping
all the machines on the net, but obviously something is
dead wrong somewhere in the samba configuration.
Ironically, I can get mail and surf through my NT
proxy, but have made exactly zero progress with samba.

I have tried without success to find some local brains
to pick. Someone suggested to me that it might be
easiest to communicate with my NT net via ftp and
telnet - this actually might be a useful solution in my
case, except that it doesn't allow me to access any
printers, and when I went looking for printer
information, well ...  And it wouldn't help those who
are trying to replace NT servers altogether, which is
my ultimate goal.

So rtfm is not *always* the answer ... thanks anyway.

And undying gratitude to anyone who would care to help
those of us out who have read so much documentation
that we are about to hit cranial meltdown :-)

Direct email is great in my case.

tnx,

Lynn

> Perhaps it's a good idea to start reading the Samba documentation,
> which 
> contains a step by step guide to install and configure samba.
> 
> grtz,
> Dennis
> 
>> Hi
>> I am newbie to linux and samba .I will appreciate any help from
>> your
>> side to install,configure..successfully run samba on redhat
>> linux be
>> possible.(steps by steps is preferrred).How to start with the
>> installation.

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