More "Samba woes" Was:[Sussex] Connecting SuSE 9.2 to Windows XP

[John D.]

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 11:57 +0100, Ronan Chilvers wrote:
> SWAT is your friend.  Install the SWAT package and then browse in
> Firefox (or whatever) to http://localhost:901.  Complete web interface
> for samba.  You can configure both global and share specific settings
> with it.  Once you've got a working share you can then have a quick peek
> at the smb.conf file to see what it did.  Samba configuration (I've done
> it a few times but am by no means Samba fluent) is pretty
> straightforward but can be frustratingly devoid of error messages.
> However SWAT will help get a working service going and you can then work
> from that.

Well, I never did find a "stand alone" app called SWAT, but something
that I found at the SAMBA site pointed out that SWAT is part of the
"samba suite"?

Anyway, Dave Chapman mentioned that you can configure Samba from Webmin
(and SWAT for that matter).

Which is great, except that as usual, with anything linux, its about
"choice"! Which thus far, has completely stuffed me! Cos I haven't got a
clue about which choices to pick!

For example, if I go into webmin>servers>samba I end up with Unix
Networking, Misc options, SWAT, windows networking, winbind
options,authentication, file share defaults, windows to unix printint
and printer file share defaults, And that's just from the Global
Configuration options! without even starting with "samba users" options.
Phew, it'd be just great, if I had the faintest idea of where to start!

Not that the "Webminguide.pdf" is much help - that also provides
information overload!

All I would like to achieve, is for Clare to be able to plug her laptop
into the hub and be able to print stuff without having to reboot the
system into windows (we did already manage to set that up, but I think I
screwed it up with meddling) - the fileshare thing is not a problem if
all the info in on the laptop.

Hence, dazed and confused!

regards

John D.