Re: samba communication

From: yls177 (yls177_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/25/04 

Date: 24 May 2004 19:52:57 -0700

Dave Hinz <DaveMay2004@duck-creek.net> wrote in message news:<2heg77FbvcinU1@uni-berlin.de>...
> 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

basically, i am a sap basis guy. and needs to shared some filesystems
from unix to windows. so is learning/looking for some help.. i will
post what i have learnt.. later.

cheers

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