Did you get samba working?

[Godish]

I thought this would be an intresting poll, personally i chose option 2 :-D

[Thanatos]

...samba sees my 98 box but not XP. :(

[z0mbix]

yeah, works well at home and work

[UnderDog138]

Works great. My linux box is my printer server for my other XP boxes on my home LAN. The only thing I can't do though is write to my XP shares from across the network.

I heard writing to NTFS file systems is risky and unstable as it is, so I figured this to be normal and left it alone. But since Samba is more like a network layer, per se, than directly writing to a file system, does that mean when sending files to other shares, the destination computer takes care of the writing or the sending computer does it? In other words, does my XP share write to its own filesystem when I send it something, keeping the NTFS write stability intact, or does my linux box write directly to the NTFS share thereby making it bad and unstable to do so?

[kam]

Yes, I did get my xxx working. :D

[bartendercorey]

I can see my share drive for my ghost images on my 2000 system, but I can't see my xp system and I'm printing fine.:rolleyes:

[mpooley]

Finally got it working after monumental struggle!
it really should be easier than this!

Linux is never going to win over the windows community until the setting up is done with easy to use wizards.

and the first thing newcomers want is to be able to set up is communication between Linux and Windows, because they are always going to want to check it out first before making the switch.

Anyway If only i could get my windows shares to mount on boot I would be happy.

mike
:cool:

[kam]

Originally posted by mpooley
Finally got it working after monumental struggle!
it really should be easier than this!

Linux is never going to win over the windows community until the setting up is done with easy to use wizards.

and the first thing newcomers want is to be able to set up is communication between Linux and Windows, because they are always going to want to check it out first before making the switch.

Anyway If only i could get my windows shares to mount on boot I would be happy.

mike
:cool: *****, *****, *****.

[EscapeCharacter]

if windows would support nfs(which is much easier to setup) no one would have to use samba

[Wibble]

Got printing working - both XP boxes can print to the printer attached to my RH 7.3 box. Can read and write to a shared folder on same box from my XP machine. Cannot see shared folders on my XP box from RH box. Yet. I'll sort it eventually. Thing is, I can't remember how I got it working in the first place!

[robagen]

There are commercial ports of NFS available for Windows..and some GNU stuff too, I think.
Got Samba going really well via that Coriolis book,
Setting Up A Linux Intranet Server--written around the time RH6 came out, it got me "up and running" well for what the version of S. used at the time could offer..2.0.6.
Samba is irritating to set up..but it's a gas to see that icon in Network Neighborhood..WOW!..I thought,
it works!!!:D :D

[jamesmi]

I spend the last week trying to get samba running as a PDC and after a few minor problems, mainly due to misunderstandings, everything works great. I can log in from win98 or win2k with no problems as well as share my printer.

[lonescout]

I voted neigh, but I still haven't given up the good fight....still have a lot to learn, and try....will hopefully join the happier portion of this group the next week or so..... Why didn't anyone tell me that the conversion to Linux could adversly affect ones sex and social life ?????

[hennety]

Jamesmi,
any chance of enlightening me as to how you set up your linux machine as a PDC?

I had Samba 2.2.5 up and running on RH8 sharing the network with 3 Win98 boxes, an Apple Mac running OS9 and 2 Win2k machines.

I'd upgraded to Samba 2.2.7 yesterday, and now one of the Win2k machines on the network seems to have been frozen out. After scanning the docs, I'm guessing that the Win2k box in question had been set up as a domain controller but I don't know how one would go about setting it up as a normal client (if that makes sense) and having the machine with Samba running act as the domain controller.

Any help would be appreciated as it's frustrating to see the Win2k box in question show up from all the machines, but accessing it responds with either a timeout or a message about not being able to find the path to the resource, and accessing the network from the Win2k box results in the same.

Thanks in advance.

[matrixcubed]

Yes, though I haven't looked into the documentation enough to render the shared drive writeable. :) That is the only thing lacking in my configuration, otherwise it's great.

[atif]

Greetings,
Yeah my shares are accessible to my windows xp boxes. Once found out default computer name was gonna cause probs. Otherwise, smb.conf is reasonably easy to get acquainted with.

I say partial conqueor coz, I haven't made my linux a primary domain controller for my xp boxes. If anyone knows how to do this. Please let me know.

regards,

Atif

[rioguia]

try:
http://spegill.linux.is/samba/docs/htmldocs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#SAMBA-PDC

[atif]

I have fully conquer'd samba!

[bmccarthy]

It runs my office... so yeah. It works. 98, NT, XP.

[cage47]

I've re-installed about a dozen times (for different reasons) since Mandrake 8.0. And I've used the same smb.conf file (It's in my backups) I even just set it up by using a text editor. No swat or anything. I once had a secondary share setup also but did away with it. My system is simple though. one Mandrake box and one win95 box. But everything is fine. printing from the win box to the linux box works fine and I added LinNeighborhood to administer my winbox.

[nline]

...small issue with the printers. Printers show up on all my Win boxes as "Access denied unable to connect" But they print just fine. Anyone know how to make it quit lying to me?

I understand that it works but anyone new to the network will say WTF and question me about it working correctly. "It works, just print to it." Is becoming my standard greeting.

[freeman_108]

four days and twelve frustrating hours later this junior grasshopper has not even figured out the xinetd file/directory/thingy. Perphaps I should skip swat and see if I can get anything else to work

And I thought life was hard :-)

[rival51]

Life is good. WinME sees Lin. Lin mounts WinME.

Encrypt Passwords = Yes

use smbpasswd

mount -t smbfs //WinME/Cdrive /mnt/Cdrive -o password=(the password for the share on WinME)

Next: printing (It's attached to WinME)

[tcleland]

I can see the Samba directory from the windows pc's, next I will try to read and write files from the Linux client. Not sure whether to use NFS or if I can just update /etc/fstab.

[lonescout]

After two painstaking weeks, I can now browse one shared directory on the Linux box (from windoze XP) , but cannot see, from my machine, back into the windows machine....but happy enough that I got it this far.....gonna keep pluggin away

[pcghost]

My samba server talks just fine with my machines (2K and Xp)
Use webmin, it rules....see my sig.

[mpjbrennan]

Everything works fine but.....

With my printer connected to my linbox (RH7.3) I cannot print from a Windows ME client. If I connect the printer to the winbox everything works.

Patrick

[tcleland]

Everything looks to be working now. For the Linux client user to update the shared Samba files, I added the following to the client's /etc/fstab file:

//PIII/aa /PIII/aa smbfs username=Guest,guest,rw,uid=tcleland,gid=tcleland, fmask=777,dmask=777 0 0

[m-sambo]

I'm using Samba 2.2.3 with WinXP Pro without any problems. Couldn't live without it.

[bandwidth_pig]

Originally posted by mpooley
Finally got it working after monumental struggle!
it really should be easier than this!

Linux is never going to win over the windows community until the setting up is done with easy to use wizards.

and the first thing newcomers want is to be able to set up is communication between Linux and Windows, because they are always going to want to check it out first before making the switch.

Anyway If only i could get my windows shares to mount on boot I would be happy.

mike
:cool:

Who cares if it wins over the windows community. "Setting up is done with easy to use wizards." Good grief man. Can I GET A WIZARDS ARE FOR WEENIES???

[seabass55]

You know...for this argument alone I tried SWAT out last week. Within a few minutes Samba was up and running from a "fresh" RH install. So that comment is really moot because there is an eazy gui install for Samba (with RH atleast). If Windows didn't try to be different then we wouldn't need Samba in the first place.

If you wanna learn how to do things right..you gotta know how to do them longhand.

Wizards are what build bad Administrators

Sebastian

[st0rmrd]

... but can't write to win machines from my lin box, it returns a "PUT" isn't supported etc. I guess I'll figure it out but I don't need it write know

I use CUPS for my printer under linux and used SWAT to configure things, so I configured samba so that the printer command is lpr -l
that means that the document to be printed is already formatted. Lastly, I installed my HP drivers in the Win machine and it prints with all the options and the same quality! It took me a while to figure it out, but when I did, it was a great!

when all works, remember to stop inetd, or xinetd working if you don't need it, so that you just get used to securing things (just a bit)

[sharth]

I had it working, then I formatted and I haven't gotten it yet. I was never able to get printing from windows to work either.

[JezzerP]

Got my Red Hat 8 box and my WinXP box chattering away over Samba no problems....I used LinNeighborhood (http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/) as a GUI front-end and it was a breeze.....printing works too....except somethings not quite right since the prints have a load of coloured lines all over them....ah well, next project:rolleyes:

[klnyc]

Yeah i got my work few days ago. But I having trouble to see my win2k server from Nix box.