[Samba] Help

[daniel.jarboe at custserv.com]

As far as configuring goes, you might also want to look into using 
webmin or swat.  It'll probably help reduce your mistakes while you 
learn how things work.

~ Daniel

mrambo at lsd.k12.mi.us wrote:

>Ronald N Brown wrote:
>
>>I am a first time user of Linux. I purchased a copy of Red Hat 8 for the
>>office. We have a Windows 2000 server and a network printer that I would
>>like to use. The computer is saying that samba must be loaded so I
>>downloaded the latest release of samba. How do I  install it.
>>
>>Thanks Ron
>>
>
>You shouldn't need to download and install Samba at all unless you
>really want/need the latest code. All versions of RedHat come with Samba
>as part of the distro. First check and see if it is installed...
>
>[mrambo at mrambo mrambo]$ rpm -qa | grep samba
>samba-2.2.2-3.2mdk
>samba-common-2.2.2-3.2mdk
>samba-client-2.2.2-3.2mdk
>
>Keeping in mind I haven't actually seen RH8 yet, both RedHat and
>Mandrake tend to break Samba down into packages of related files -
>clients, the server, and files common to both. If you have packages like
>the above you aleady have samba installed. All that is left is to
>configure. Look for the smb.conf file in /etc/samba to handle that task.
>Try 'man smb.conf' from a console (command prompt) to get some
>documentation on what things mean. Mostly though, you only have to set
>the workgroup at the top of the file. Most of the other default config
>values are reasonable these days - particularly for simple
>experimentation and learning.
>
>Once you have it configured just make sure the Samba daemons are started
>up. '/sbin/service smb status' will tell you the status in that regard.
>If they are, and you've made changes you probably want to '/sbin/service
>smb restart'. If they aren't you need '/sbin/service smb start'. I'm
>sure you get the picture. '/sbin/chkconfig --list | grep smb' will tell
>you the run levels in which smb is configured to automatically start at
>boot (init 3 is boot direct to CLI, init 5 is boot to gui).
>
>See where this gets you first. There could be other things that may
>hinder proper operation (like incorrect /etc/hosts file set up) but they
>can be dealt with when you get to them.
>
>If you really are wanting to get to the latest version of samba I'd
>recommend getting the rpm's from samba.org instead of the sources. If
>you're new to Linux you might be better off to deal with rpm's initially
>than to jump right in to compiling you own packages (just my 2 cents
>:-). You can usually find rpm's on the samba download site that are made
>specifically for all RedHat versions back to 6.2 as I recall.
>
>

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