I don't know of a KDE app, (but I don't know of a LOT of things) but if you are just looking for a GUI setup tool for samba, then I've had great success with SWAT. It runs through your web browser. Do the following:

Edit /etc/inetd.conf to uncomment the line that says: swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat swat

Edit /etc/hosts.allow to contain: swat: 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.

if like me, you want any local computer (192.168.0.x) to be able to access SWAT.

Type http://localhost:901 into a web browser.

Use swat to set up things. I'll include my smb.conf as an attachment to show you how I set up my printer and a couple of shared directories. You can also follow the same advice I did from http://plug.phoenix.az.us/step-by-step/samba/toc.html which is and old but still useful "Samba Server Step-by-Step Guide".

The one thing he doesn't tell you in that guide is to go to SWAT's passwords section and create a samba user for each client computer. You'll have to have a linux user on the server for each of these computers too. Then I made sure my windows computers were actually using the same user names and passwords for logging into windows (control panel:users) and then finally in swat click on ENABLE USER for each user you've created.

After that the server computer showed up in Network Neighborhood and I could set up a network printer in Windows with the settings:printer:wizard thingy.

Good luck. I feel like some of what works for me, works on accident and I don't really understand what I've done myself. I just know the clients can print, and I'm thrilled with that.

Brian

Fred A. Miller wrote:

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I've searched the 8.0 CDs, but haven't been able to find a KDE app. to configure Samba? Apparently, LinNeighborhood will no longer work without Samba being setup (BUMMER). Is there such a app?

Thanks,

Fred

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# Samba config file created using SWAT # from localhost (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2002/05/01 04:43:18 # Global parameters [global] interfaces = 192.168.0.1/24 127.0.0.1/24 bind interfaces only = Yes security = SHARE encrypt passwords = Yes map to guest = Bad User log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m time server = Yes socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY character set = ISO8859-15 os level = 2 dns proxy = No wins support = Yes guest account = smbuser hosts allow = 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3 192.168.0.4 printing = lprng hide dot files = No veto files = /*.eml/*.nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/ [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No create mask = 0640 directory mask = 0750 guest ok = Yes [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/tmp create mask = 0600 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes [printer1] path = /var/tmp read only = No create mask = 0600 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes printer name = printer1 oplocks = No [public] comment = Public path = /home/public read only = No create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 guest ok = Yes [data] comment = Data path = /home/samba/data read only = No create mask = 0660 directory mask = 0770 guest ok = Yes