Re: samba communication

From: Dave Hinz (DaveMay2004_at_duck-creek.net)
Date: 05/25/04

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    Date: 25 May 2004 15:17:34 GMT

    On 24 May 2004 19:52:57 -0700, yls177 <yls177@hotmail.com> wrote:
    > Dave Hinz <DaveMay2004@duck-creek.net> wrote in message news:<2heg77FbvcinU1@uni-berlin.de>...

    >> 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.
    >
    > 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.

    The sharing is pretty basic, authentication is where you need to decide
    how it's going to work. I prefer to have the Samba server get
    authentication information from the Windows domain, which means
    setting security = DOMAIN in the [global] section of the smb.conf.
    Depending on if your usernames map to their directory names, you
    can even have them go directly to the share, right into their
    own directory, instead of being presented with a list of them.

    Suggestion - start with no authentication, get the sharing working.
    Then, add domain authentication, tell the SMB server who the WINS
    server is and what domain it's in, tell the domain controller on
    the windows side that your SMB server is allowed to join the
    domain, and you should be good to go. This is alot easier
    in the Samba3 days than it was earlier.

    If you get stuck, post your smb.conf and a description, and
    someone here will probably have suggestions.

    Dave Hinz

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