Can someone explain what Samba is? Am I correct to assume that it allows my Linux system to see a W2k system? Tom
On Saturday 25 May 2002 01.58, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Can someone explain what Samba is? Am I correct to assume that it allows my Linux system to see a W2k system?
The name of the protocol that Microsoft uses to communicate between machines is called the Server Message Block, or SMB. They had to come up with a cool project name for smb, and samba was a natural choice :) And yes, it allows a windows machine to talk to a linux box, and vice versa. //Anders
On Friday 24 May 2002 20:02, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 25 May 2002 01.58, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Can someone explain what Samba is? Am I correct to assume that it allows my Linux system to see a W2k system?
The name of the protocol that Microsoft uses to communicate between machines is called the Server Message Block, or SMB. They had to come up with a cool project name for smb, and samba was a natural choice :)
And yes, it allows a windows machine to talk to a linux box, and vice versa.
But it sounds like Tom Nielsen only needs a Samba client, not a Samba server. The server can replace a windows 2000/NT Network Domain and Workgroup server.
OK, now you threw me. It would make sense that I only need the client because my w2k machine is what I'm going to talk to...correct?? Tom On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 17:25, Alexander Klayman wrote:
On Friday 24 May 2002 20:02, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 25 May 2002 01.58, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Can someone explain what Samba is? Am I correct to assume that it allows my Linux system to see a W2k system?
The name of the protocol that Microsoft uses to communicate between machines is called the Server Message Block, or SMB. They had to come up with a cool project name for smb, and samba was a natural choice :)
And yes, it allows a windows machine to talk to a linux box, and vice versa.
But it sounds like Tom Nielsen only needs a Samba client, not a Samba server. The server can replace a windows 2000/NT Network Domain and Workgroup server.
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On Saturday 25 May 2002 02.25, Alexander Klayman wrote:
But it sounds like Tom Nielsen only needs a Samba client, not a Samba server. The server can replace a windows 2000/NT Network Domain and Workgroup server.
I'll let him answer for what he needs, but a little while ago he asked how to let a win2k machine browse his suse box, and for that he'll need the samba server. //Anders -- I swear I do declare - how did you get that there?
He is correct. I think I did say that. It's also been a long day and I ran out of coffee a couple hours ago. California time. I'm officially flip-flopping. I want to be able to browse a w2k machine, which is where some files are located that I need to access...read-only. It's also setup in an NTFS format. Does this help? Tom On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 17:23, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 25 May 2002 02.25, Alexander Klayman wrote:
But it sounds like Tom Nielsen only needs a Samba client, not a Samba server. The server can replace a windows 2000/NT Network Domain and Workgroup server.
I'll let him answer for what he needs, but a little while ago he asked how to let a win2k machine browse his suse box, and for that he'll need the samba server.
//Anders
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On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 18:58, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Can someone explain what Samba is? Am I correct to assume that it allows my Linux system to see a W2k system?
Tom
Hi Tom, Samba is a network service that emulates the Microsoft File Sharing Network standards. Basically, it allows you to connect to Windows machines on your network, and it allows them to connect to you. It's very powerful, and configurable -- not to mention 2-3 times faster than a real Microsoft Server. It can be used as a win 9x client/server sharing just like they do. It can be used as an NT/2K BDC (back-up domain controller) and has full support to be used w/in a domain. Your main configuration file is /etc/samba/smb.conf you can check /etc/inetd.conf to uncomment out a line with "swat" settings on it, then restart inetd by issuing "/etc/init.d/inetd restart" as root. This will open up a port on your machine that will let you connect to it through a web-browser to configure samba. http://localhost:901 is where you'd go! :) Check out http://www.samba.org and http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/ this book for other stuff. If you're new to the Linux world, any book by the aforementioned publisher (o'reilly) is always a winner! :) Hope this helps! Travis.
Now this is what I was looking for! All of you notice how comprehensive this email was. This is a good answer to my question! Here's the scoop. I had a server setup as a linux server with RH7 but one of our company's most important files kept getting corrupted...Quickbooks. I had to pull it down and put Win2k on there. I had setup Samba on the server, but that was on the server while the clients were W2k. Now the situation is reversed. Setting up Samba back a year + was a nightmare, and like most car accidents, I forgot EVERYTHING about it. What I needed was a starting point...below...to get me going. Thanks! On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 17:23, Travis Owens wrote:
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 18:58, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Can someone explain what Samba is? Am I correct to assume that it allows my Linux system to see a W2k system?
Tom
Hi Tom,
Samba is a network service that emulates the Microsoft File Sharing Network standards. Basically, it allows you to connect to Windows machines on your network, and it allows them to connect to you. It's very powerful, and configurable -- not to mention 2-3 times faster than a real Microsoft Server.
It can be used as a win 9x client/server sharing just like they do. It can be used as an NT/2K BDC (back-up domain controller) and has full support to be used w/in a domain.
Your main configuration file is /etc/samba/smb.conf you can check /etc/inetd.conf to uncomment out a line with "swat" settings on it, then restart inetd by issuing "/etc/init.d/inetd restart" as root. This will open up a port on your machine that will let you connect to it through a web-browser to configure samba. http://localhost:901 is where you'd go! :)
Check out http://www.samba.org and http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/ this book for other stuff. If you're new to the Linux world, any book by the aforementioned publisher (o'reilly) is always a winner! :)
Hope this helps! Travis.
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Suse 7.1 kde 2.2.2 Vmware 2.0.4-build 1118 running Windows continues to work well for me. The data file is on my Mandrake box, with Samba is running. Quickbooks (on Vmware) is able to read the data file over the network. But I backup to the VMware local disk. Brian Marr On Saturday 25 May 2002 09:51, you wrote:
Now this is what I was looking for! All of you notice how comprehensive this email was. This is a good answer to my question!
Here's the scoop. I had a server setup as a linux server with RH7 but one of our company's most important files kept getting corrupted...Quickbooks. I had to pull it down and put Win2k on there. I had setup Samba on the server, but that was on the server while the clients were W2k. Now the situation is reversed.
Setting up Samba back a year + was a nightmare, and like most car accidents, I forgot EVERYTHING about it. What I needed was a starting point...below...to get me going.
Thanks!
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 17:23, Travis Owens wrote:
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 18:58, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Can someone explain what Samba is? Am I correct to assume that it allows my Linux system to see a W2k system?
Tom
Hi Tom,
Samba is a network service that emulates the Microsoft File Sharing Network standards. Basically, it allows you to connect to Windows machines on your network, and it allows them to connect to you. It's very powerful, and configurable -- not to mention 2-3 times faster than a real Microsoft Server.
It can be used as a win 9x client/server sharing just like they do. It can be used as an NT/2K BDC (back-up domain controller) and has full support to be used w/in a domain.
Your main configuration file is /etc/samba/smb.conf you can check /etc/inetd.conf to uncomment out a line with "swat" settings on it, then restart inetd by issuing "/etc/init.d/inetd restart" as root. This will open up a port on your machine that will let you connect to it through a web-browser to configure samba. http://localhost:901 is where you'd go! :)
Check out http://www.samba.org and http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/ this book for other stuff. If you're new to the Linux world, any book by the aforementioned publisher (o'reilly) is always a winner! :)
Hope this helps! Travis.
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