[Glastonbury] File and printer sharing

[Alistair Parsons]

i have always found, 
for any server admin
forget messing around
just use webmin




On 26/07/05, tim hall <tech at glastonburymusic.org.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Right, I've got to the point with the Assembly Rooms network where I'm going
> to need some help. It's taken somewhat longer than I expected, but now I have
> four boxes all networked up, two running Ubuntu Hoary and two running Debian
> Sarge. The network is nicely configured, I can send pings all round and I can
> ssh happily between the Sarge boxes, which is all well and good. The Ubuntu
> machines have all their ports closed as per default. I'm not entirely sure
> how to open them, is that simply a question of starting the relevant service
> from /etc/init.d/ or are they locked down more than that? I might not bother,
> if I don't need to do this.
> 
> The Ubuntu clients can see the internet fine through the Debian gateway box,
> now I want to share files and printers. Help please.
> 
> I'm trying to configure samba, which I'm doing by playing with the values
> in /etc/samba/smb.conf on each of the boxes. I can see all but one of the
> Ubuntu machines, which I could probably solve by simply copying across the
> smb.conf file, but how? remember, no ssh or anything. I suppose I could do it
> via ftp, but that seems a little daft. However, I can't access the shares on
> any machine. The problem I'm guessing lies with the authentication, this is
> usually where I come unstuck. Does samba use separate username/password
> values to main system? There seem to be so many different authentication
> methods and I'm not sure which are supposed to work together or conflict.
> Does anyone have any good pointers to an explanation of the system written in
> reasonably plain English? I'm beginning to find developer jargon slightly
> tedious, especially when it runs to several pages. ;)
> 
> I'm also having similar and I suspect related problems with printer and
> scanner configuration. I keep reading these wonderful reports about how CUPS
> and SANE have made it so much easier and I dread to think what it must have
> been like before they arrived. The device permissions all look right by the
> way and I've added myself to the relevant groups and the printers are
> supported models - I looked them up on linuxprinting.org - I'm stumped.
> 
> Any thoughts, advice, suggestions, incantations, bone casting or downright
> dirty hacks would be appreciated at this point.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> tim hall
> http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
> 
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