[Glastonbury] File and printer sharing

[Alistair Parsons]

seriously

i have always had niggles with samba

if you use webmin, there is a nice synchronise samba users with local users etc

also with webmin you can  control any aspect of the box, we use it for
backing up database, mysql database editing, rebooting serever,
transfering files ,

its really easy to install from a tarball as well

Alistair


On 26/07/05, Alistair Parsons <neoaliphant at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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