FC2 - Samba setup

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Thu Dec 9 22:26:54 UTC 2004


On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 16:19:24 -0600, Otto Haliburton
<ottohaliburton at comcast.net> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-
> > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht
> > Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:57 PM
> > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > Subject: FC2 - Samba setup
> >
> > Hi,
> >    I got my son a new GQ/Linspire computer yesterday at Frys. $199.
> > Fan is noisy and not much memory, but boy this is a lot of technology
> > for $199.
> >
> >    I booted it with Linspire but it's far too commercial for my tastes
> > so I've installed FC2 which is now up and running. One nice thing I
> > saw in Linspire was a little app that I could put in windows workgroup
> > info and immediately the machine say my wife's Win XP box. I'm having
> > trouble finding this under FC2 using with Gnome or KDE which are both
> > on the box.
> >
> >    What was I seeing and using to do this? The app just asked me what
> > the workgroup name was and after than everything worked.
> >
> >    If I need an RPM then where do I go these days to get FC2 RPMs?
> >
> >    Basically I want to add a printer on this new FC2 box and have that
> > visible to my wife in the other room, and also to let the two of them
> > share files between their computers.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Mark
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
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> Hi Mark,
>         I know how you relish in getting things to work and so I kinda don't
> want to make this suggestion but you are a fellow Fry's shopper and you can
> get a print server really cheap at Fry's and if you don't want to spend a
> lot of time getting Samba to work then this is the way to go.
> 
> 

Otto,
   You know me so well!

   Unfortunately I lost my job 3 weeks ago so I have less money and
more time. I think learning Samba is probably the right thing for me
to do. I'll certainly need that for the printer part.

   I found it moderately impressive that the Linspire installation
came with Samba set up well enough that all I had to do was enter the
workgroup name and all the machines were happy. I'm hoping that this
is mostly KDE/Gnome and not really necessary to become a Samba expert,
but probably I'm wrong.

   So...

1) What's the name of the Samba setup environment? (Webmin maybe?)

2) Where can I get an RPM for FC2 of whatever the environment is?

Thanks,
Mark




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