[Glastonbury] File and printer sharing

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

SWAT - apt-get install swat

CUPS has its own web interface.

Ubuntu probably doesn't enable the ssh daemon by default - 
dpkg-reconfigure ssh might do it.

HTH,

Andy

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 08:15:35PM +0100, Alistair Parsons wrote:
> i have always found, 
> for any server admin
> forget messing around
> just use webmin
> 
There is too much in webmin, potentially, for something simple.
Also, you are opening up a lot of services in one go if you use
webmin to administer everything IMHO

> 
> 
> 
> 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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