Samba

notbob wrote:[color=blue]
> Not the same book as O'Reilly. Also, what the hell is it doing in
> /usr/share/swat/yadayada ? What's a "swat"? Why not in /usr/docs?[/color]

Did you even look in /usr/doc ?

kees@lankhmar:~$ ls -l /usr/doc/samba-3.0.32/docs
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5780 2008-05-02 16:43 THANKS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10649 2008-05-02 16:43 history
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2008-09-03 23:20 htmldocs ->
/usr/share/swat/help/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-05-02 16:43 registry/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2008-09-03 23:20 using_samba ->
/usr/share/swat/using_samba

(indented lines are wrapped)


Regards,

Kees.

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On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:20:15 +0000, notbob wrote:
[color=blue]
> Kinda like the "chicken or the egg" dilemma. How can I find the book to
> learn what swat is if I don't know to look in swat cuz I don't know what
> swat is. DUH!
>
> nb[/color]

Swat is part of samba. In the future is obsolete.



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Murat D. Kadirov

Hallo, Murat,

Du meintest am 09.09.08:
[color=blue][color=green]
>> Kinda like the "chicken or the egg" dilemma. How can I find the
>> book to learn what swat is if I don't know to look in swat cuz I
>> don't know what swat is. DUH![/color][/color]
[color=blue]
> Swat is part of samba. In the future is obsolete.[/color]

And "swat" deletes all comments - that's nasty.

Viele Gruesse
Helmut

"Ubuntu" - an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:20:15 +0000, notbob wrote:[color=blue]
> On 2008-09-09, Dave Uhring <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote:[/color]
[color=blue][color=green]
>> Slackware 12.1 has Samba3 and you pointed to a book for Samba2, not the
>> same thing. Did you even look at the date on that document? So, yes, it
>> is not the same book as O'Reilly.[/color]
>
> My recommendation for the O'Reilly book was because its a well written book
> easilly understandable by newbs. I don't know about the newer samba3
> howto.[/color]

While five year old documentation is not entirely useless reliance on that
documentation can lead one into difficulties.
[color=blue][color=green]
>> Read the book and you will find out what "swat" is.[/color]
>
> Kinda like the "chicken or the egg" dilemma. How can I find the book to
> learn what swat is if I don't know to look in swat cuz I don't know what
> swat is. DUH![/color]

Uncomment the line in /etc/inetd.conf for the Samba Web Administration
Tool, then 'pkill -HUP inetd'. Now point your browser to
[url]http://localhost:901[/url].

Storm schreef:[color=blue]
> Can anyone point me to a good tutorial about Samba? I'm trying to set it up
> as a file server in a Windows network, but without luck. Specifically, I
> want to share a folder named "data" on another partition, but from any
> other machine in my network, when I enter \\_machine_name_\data or
> \\_ip_address_\data I receive the error "the network path was not found".
> From the slackware box, I can access windows shares on my network just
> fine.
>
>[/color]
For the sake of posterity - these are two articles I wrote about file-
and printersharing on a network with a Slackware Linux server and
Linux/Windows clients:

[url]http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:samba[/url]
[url]http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:cups[/url]

Eric

On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:20:15 +0000, notbob wrote:[color=blue]
> On 2008-09-09, Dave Uhring <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote:[/color]
[color=blue][color=green]
>> Read the book and you will find out what "swat" is.[/color]
>
> Kinda like the "chicken or the egg" dilemma. How can I find the book to
> learn what swat is if I don't know to look in swat cuz I don't know what
> swat is. DUH![/color]

Obviously you failed even to read the O'Reilly book for which you provided
a URL. You might have found enlightenment in Chapter 2:

[url]http://oreilly.com/catalog/samba2/book/ch02.html[/url]

under the headings "Enabling SWAT" and "Using SWAT".

"Frank Bell" <fwb2355@aim.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> The Samba reference that finally helped me get my Samba network working
> was this,[/color]
[color=blue]
> [url]http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/[/url][/color]

There is also a very good checklist at:

[url]http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/diagnosis.html[/url]

regards Henrik
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On 2008-09-09, Dave Uhring <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
> Obviously you failed even to read the O'Reilly book for which you provided
> a URL.[/color]

If I wanted a gui based management tool, I would have stayed with Red Hat.
I got from the book exactly what I needed, no more, no less. And since I no
longer even mess with Windows based computers, I have even less need for
samba, 2 or 3.

nb