Re: Samba Installation

[manas garg <manasg@xxxxxxx>]

Well, my experience is that configuring samba is a very painful process.
You have to really understand it and there are so many options that it
becomes difficult to find your way through. I have seen quite a few people
who attempted to do it but relinquished in between. Somehow, I survived
;-)

Considering this, I have written a generic smb.conf which should serve the
purpose of a person who is just starting out on linux. And in order to
make it work, just 2 fields need to be changed: netbios name & workgroup.
I have put a lot of comments in this file to make the user comfortable
with the fields that have been used in that file. I am not an expert of
samba (or of anything for that matter), but I have given it a try and my
effort has been focused on to writing a file that gives the services that
a user may normaly want (for something extraordinary, he'll obviously have
to write it himself) from samba.

As I pointed out, I am not an expert of samba. Will somebody have a look
at the file (shares, comments etc.) and point out the shortcomings/suggest
the additions/deletions etc. etc..

Is anybody interested?? Please send the mail directly to me.

Regards

Manas

Ps: Yoganand, don't send HTML mails on this list, for, nobody (well
almost) will reply to them (simply because they can't read). Many people
(including me) on this list find Good Old Pine/elm/Mutt better than New
Advanced System Hoggers like Outlook. As far as your samba installation is
concerned, I'll send you the smb.conf today, as I am writing the final
bits of it.


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