Installation for a Newbie

[Steve Litt]

Hi Matt,

Your very first step is to follow the 10 step predefined diagnostic
outlined in file DIAGNOSIS.txt, which comes with your Samba distro. On an
RH61 box it's probably in directory /usr/doc/samba-2.0.3/docs/textdocs, or
something like that. Also, if you're using some hairy smb.conf that came as
example code, you might want to temporarily try an ultra-simple smb.conf:

netbios name=<linux host name>
workgroup=<same workgroup as on the Windows client>
encrypt passwd=<no on early w95 or wfw, yes for later win OS's>
[homes]
read only=no

The stuff in angle brackets are not literals, they're descriptions of what
to put.

Steve Litt


At 01:53 AM 02/17/2000 +1100, you wrote:
>I'm utterly new to Linux and Samba but we will be Beta Testing a Linux 
>version of our product soon and so I need to learn. I've got RedHat 6.1 
>installed and running and I can browse the Internet... BUT I can't get 
>Samba to do what I think it should be able to do....
>
>I've created an account on my NT Domain Server (NT 4.0 PDC SP6) for the 
>NetBios name of the Linux Machine.
>
>I've tried to log in from Samba... But it just gives me strange messages I 
>don't understand... I installed Samba as a package during my Linux set up 
>so I assume (and this could be the problem) that like the other packages 
>it's ready to roll... I can run the various smbxxxxx programs but they 
>don't seem to do anything. (Well I mean I can run them and get a list of 
>possible parameters but when I try and use the parameters they error) I 
>still can't see my Linux machine in Network Neighborhood... I can browse to 
>the Samba Web Interface thing and make and save changes... I've even tried 
>it all while logged in as ROOT... No dice.
>
>Is there any simple How-To that can get me going? I've tried the Man Pages 
>for Samba and they don't seem to help me... I've tried searching for a 
>How-To and I didn't find anything I could use...
>
>At this point I don't even know where to start or where to look... Help?
>
>I appreciate any kind (and informative) words...
>
>Thanks
>
>Matt
>
>