Re: samba communication

From: Dave Hinz (DaveMay2004_at_duck-creek.net)
Date: 05/24/04 

Date: 24 May 2004 14:47:04 GMT

On 23 May 2004 20:46:54 -0700, yls177 <yls177@hotmail.com> wrote:
> anyone has an experience in configuring samba such that samba is used
> to communicate between a unix and windows box?

Yes, that's what it's for, for file and print sharing. Makes the
unix box look like a Windows server, to windows clients.
 
> is it just this smb.conf?

Mosty. You might want to look into setting up 'swat', which gives
you a web administration console for samba, and is one of the few
web-based config tools that works intelligently. Prentice Hall
publishes "The official Samba-3 howto and reference guide" which
is excellent and has examples of pretty much any configuration
you might want to try, and then some, or let us know where you get
stuck and we'll give it a shot.

Dave Hinz

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