Samba Newbie

[Christian Barth]

> 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.
RH 7.1 when install in the default way ships with a software firewall 
that blocks the prots needed for samba. 

> 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.

What do you want to do?
- Connect with NT to a samba share on the linux machine?
- Connect with the linux machine to a share on the Nt machine?
--> two different approaches nessecary!
- where are the printers attached to physicaly?
- if its on linux, do they work form there?
- are you using the rpm's from RH, from samba or have you 
  compailed the source?

> 
> So rtfm is not *always* the answer ... thanks anyway.
With the samba source comes a file DIAGNOSTIC.txt (or like that). 
What are your results in the different steps?

Christian


> 
> 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.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 
> 
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> I'd rather be WARP'ed    * * *      Team OS/2
> 
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