Re: samba heaven [was, samba hell]

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Marty Landman wrote:
> Heh, got it. That minor issue where explorer on my xp workstation wasn't 
> working just cleared up. I decided that since samba worked on my linux 
> box I oughta be able to get it working on my fbsd box... something 
> previously given up on after several failed attempts a while ago.
>
> Oddly enough now that it works on fbsd as well (yeah, running two samba 
> servers) - explorer behaves properly on my xp box.
>
> Dumb questions -
>
> how can I create shares between my unix boxes?

Uh, not sure what you mean.  You can export directories via NFS between
the Linux boxes if you wish.  This involves editing the /etc/exports
file on the server and /etc/fstab on the client.  That's the native way
of doing it on Linux.  See "man exports" and "man fstab".

> how can I create shares on my windows boxes to access from my unix boxes?

Create the shares as normal and share them.  You can either use the
manual "mount" command or put them in /etc/fstab.  Examples I use:

Manual mount:

    mount -t smbfs -o username=rstevens,passwd=my_password \
	 //vsdc01/admins /vsdc01

/etc/fstab entry (for automounting):

    //vsdc01/admins   /vsnet/admins    smbfs \
	username=rstevens,password=my_password    0 0

> how can I print from a printer share on a win98 box via one of my unix 
> boxes?

Make sure you set up the printer share in the smb.conf file and stop and
restart the nmbd and smbd daemons.

> If there's a pub recommended for these answers please feel free to 
> recommend. I'm assuming these three things are all doable.

Get the O'Reilly book "Using Samba".  It's the "official" book of the
Samba organization.
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