networking between fedora and macos

[Les Mikesell]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 14:26, Trevor Smith wrote:

> > Ok, if your wanting to do that then samba is probably your best bet.
> >
> > If that freaks you out then use the gui tools.  The samba-config stuff
> > now is pretty easy.  Just set the share, hit another tab and add the
> > samba users and finally fire up the config-services gui tools to start
> > the service up.
> >
> > Worked just fine for me.
> 
> hmph. When I tried that I spent hours reading about how to and never 
> got it off the ground (with a WinXP machine). I guess there is no 
> "easy" way so I may just stick with scp and transfer files selectively 
> and manually.

Isn't there a default smb.conf that shares the home directories or
am I just spoiled by using the k12ltsp distribution that has
better defaults for some things?  All you should have to do
is:
service smb start (to start it once)
chkconfig --level 345 smb on (to make it start at boot)
smbpasswd -a your_login
  type your password so it can store it in windows format
 
Then, you should be able to connect as that user via windows
file sharing and see your home directory.  It helps if you
log into your windows box with the same login name that
you use on Linux because the windows client supplies that
name automatically. 

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  Les Mikesell
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