[Samba] urgent please

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Pierre,

Pierre JIJI wrote on Friday, 18 July 2003 6:04 a.m.:
> dear sirs:
> i introduce my self as an IT professional and i have the following 
> certificates MCSE - CCNA - A+... i downloaded samba for redhat 8.0 
> (rpm file ) from your site and i installed it on my redhat computer 
> and i tried to configure it as smb server  to connect to it from 
> windows 2000 server computer and i failed...please inform me with all 
> configurations that i should do on redhat computer and windows 2000 
> server computer

You will need to supply more information before anyone will be able to
help you. What version of Samba are you trying to install? What role do
you want the Samba server to perform? What exact errors are you
getting/problems are you having?

> also would you please direct me where i can find
> sutable documentation for this problem... thanks in advance

If you are using Samba 3.0-beta, the following is the definitive
document on setting up and using Samba (it also contains information of
relevance to 2.2):

http://samba.org/~jht/NT4migration/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf

Cheers,
Paul