samba for newbies

[Jon Hill]

I recently helped a non-profit org to setup Samba as their main file/print 
server. It also acts as a Primary Domain Controller for the network, allowing 
the XP clients to use roaming profiles.  Everyone seems happy with the setup, 
I am happy to help if I can.

Jon

On Friday 11 February 2005 18:45, Johnathan Bailes wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:58:37 +0100, Duncan Lithgow
>
> <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've just got a message form a charity I know asking me if I could setup
> > a file/prinetr server for them. I haven't asked yet but I assume they're
> > all on windows.
> >
> > So, samba on a straight forward linux is what I guess I should do, but
> > I'm new to it all. I've never played with samba ...
> >
> > My question is should I agree to set this up? I can simulate the whole
> > thing from my two computers here at home ... but
> >
> > a.) will I be able to adjust to and understand the concepts?
> > b.) do people fell like helping me through this the fast way? Usually I'd
> > spend ages reading - but I can't really ask them to wait a few weeks...
> > c.) would I be doing them a favour saying no and putting them onto
> > someone else who understands it better, but may charge for setting it up?
> >
> > if you say yes to a & b then please help me find a 'quick guide to samba'
> > all i found on google was a bit too sparce or too deep.
> >
> > thanks, Duncan
> >
> >From an understanding point of view:
>
> http://ralphie.perlmonk.org/mosix/simple_samba.html
>
> >From a setting it up in Fedora point of view:
>
> http://fedoranews.org/tchung/samba/
>
> Yes, its about setting up a printer to share.  I know that but look at
> the default smb.conf.  If you turn on the service and have users set
> up in your smbpasswd then you got /homes shared by default (with
> browsing turned off).
>
> Plus you got this actually pretty nice samba config tool with Fedora.
> I like how it adds new stuff to the bottom and does not mess with your
> settings to hard and all that.
>
> Take a look at the above links and keep it simple out of the box.
> Then start to get more complicated as you go.  Don't forget to leave
> yourself a whole in the IPTables firewall as described in the above
> link.
>
> Oh yeah and have fun samba is pretty easy to setup but has a lot of
> neato features to start messing with once you have an idea of what you
> are doing.