[Samba] A question from a newbie

Christian Barth barth at cck.uni-kl.de
Sun Feb 17 12:27:02 GMT 2002


> Hello All,
> 
> I am new to Samba so my question may seem a bit stupid, redundant, etc to 
> this list.  Basically what I want to do is to be able to access any 
> directory on my Slackware 8.0 box from my Win2k computer.  All of the 
> documentation that I have seen leads me to believe that this is not 
> possible.  I am looking in the wrong place?  Any and all help is 
> appreciated.
> 
This is possible! This is what samba is for!
Install samba on the Slackware Box, create a share with "paht = /", 
appliy the registry key in w2k to allow plaintext passwords (or set 
up encrypted passwords on samba) and you are fine.

Christian


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