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.