[K12OSN] OT - Setting up Samba on k12ltsp for Ubuntu and XP clients?
"Terrell Prudé Jr."
microman at cmosnetworks.com
Thu Mar 5 17:22:09 UTC 2009
Carl Keil wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm running an old server (the Fedora 6 version of k12ltsp).
Please upgrade to K12LTSP 5EL. No security updates for Fedora 6 since
December 2007. You don't want your server to get compromised.
> I'm trying to set up a Samba share on it that people can access
> equally easily from Ubuntu 8.04 or Windows XP clients. The Windows
> clients seem to work how I want them to, but the Ubuntu clients are
> acting weird. I'm going through the "Places" menu and adding the
> server via "Connect to Server" selecting "Windows Share" and typing in
> the IP/share name etc. Then it asks for the password. When I type in
> the password and click OK, sometimes it "takes" and sometimes it
> doesn't. Even when it works it pops up an error message saying that
> the share wasn't mounted. But when you go back to "Places" it's
> there. Also, I have 2 shares, one of them works as above, and seems
> OK once you get in. But the other shows up, and you can create files
> and folders, but then you can't edit them in applications or save them
> from within applications. Even though you just created them.
Just as a test--assuming all your WORKGROUP settings are the same--try
installing Konqueror on *one* Ubuntu 8.04 machine and entering the
following URL, adjusted for your server/share:
smb://myserver/myshare
and see if that works. That's how I access SMB shares from my Ubuntu
box at the office.
>
> This is for a school of mixed ages. None of this is user friendly
> enough on Ubuntu. I thought about doing an NFS share of the same
> directories. But someone on this list a long time ago warned me
> against "mixing" shares as both NFS and Samba. He said stuff could
> get all bolluxed up.
Nah, that's not a problem. I used to do this all the time with NFS,
Samba, *and* Netatalk. What he's probably referring to is something
called file locking. Sure, that could be a factor if two or more folks
are trying to write to the same file, but that can be an issue in any
heterogeneous (read: not entirely MS Windows) environment. Applying
appropriate access permissions eliminates that issue anyway.
>
> Does anyone have a "HowTo" or a good link that will walk me through a
> good setup? I've been googling and everything is assuming that I've
> got an Ubuntu server serving Ubuntu and XP clients. I've tried
> adapting the suggestions in there with no luck.
If there is one, www.howtoforge.com is the first place I'd look.
They've got distro-specific how-to's for lots of subjects.
--TP
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