Re: [Nolug] samba 101

From: David John <david_at_digitalsolutions-la.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:17:18 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <55266.205.152.138.34.1119370638.squirrel@205.152.138.34>

Have you checked:
http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/install.html#id2532400
?

David

On Tue, June 21, 2005 9:23 am, Christopher M. Jones said:
> I'm trying to get samba running here at home. I have one Linux client,
> and two w2k clients connected to a router. I've got samba configured
> correctly enough that, in Gnome, Computer->Network->Windows
> Network->domain and Computer->Network show the Linux client and the two
> w2k machines. The problems I have are these:
>
> 1. I cannot browse the w2k machines' available shares as I can when I am
> on one of the w2k machines. I have to know the share, e.g.,
> machine/Shared Files, put it inot the location bar, and log into the
> machine.
>
> 2. When I first bring up the contents of the share it takes a -long-
> time to list.
>
> 3. I would rather not have to authenticate myself all the time from the
> Linux client. I have an account on each of the w2k machines that matches
> my account on the Linux client, and the w2k folder is shared to
> everyone.
>
> 4. The only authentication the w2k machines will accept is the
> Administrator's. I can't authenticate as any of the users on the w2k
> machines.
>
> Any suggestions for me? Ask me questions and I'll post more and relevant
> details.
>
> --
> Christopher M. Jones <cjones@partialflow.com>
>
> ___________________
> Nolug mailing list
> nolug@nolug.org
>

On Tue, June 21, 2005 9:23 am, Christopher M. Jones said:
> I'm trying to get samba running here at home. I have one Linux client,
> and two w2k clients connected to a router. I've got samba configured
> correctly enough that, in Gnome, Computer->Network->Windows
> Network->domain and Computer->Network show the Linux client and the two
> w2k machines. The problems I have are these:
>
> 1. I cannot browse the w2k machines' available shares as I can when I am
> on one of the w2k machines. I have to know the share, e.g.,
> machine/Shared Files, put it inot the location bar, and log into the
> machine.
>
> 2. When I first bring up the contents of the share it takes a -long-
> time to list.
>
> 3. I would rather not have to authenticate myself all the time from the
> Linux client. I have an account on each of the w2k machines that matches
> my account on the Linux client, and the w2k folder is shared to
> everyone.
>
> 4. The only authentication the w2k machines will accept is the
> Administrator's. I can't authenticate as any of the users on the w2k
> machines.
>
> Any suggestions for me? Ask me questions and I'll post more and relevant
> details.
>
> --
> Christopher M. Jones <cjones@partialflow.com>
>
> ___________________
> Nolug mailing list
> nolug@nolug.org
>

___________________
Nolug mailing list
nolug@nolug.org
Received on 06/21/05

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : 12/19/08 EST