[Klug-general] Samba....

[Peter Childs]

On 26 April 2011 19:36, nic dan <dungeons88 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Try Slampp....its a liveCD server OS with Samba built-in, and is really easy
> to use/administer,...... even by windows users
>
> .....else a linux of your choice plus apache tomcat, or http fileserver,
> maybe....?
>
> http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi
>
> http://httpfileserver.sourceforge.net/

How does this solve the main one of my problems, ie provide a File
Server to a load of Windows Users,

I'm quite happy to believe that webdav can solve the root problem, but
as yet I've not yet met any clients that can talk webdav properly....

mount -t webdav http://server/path /media/mountpoint


maybe then I could just run a ftp server and do a

mount -t ftp ftp://server/path /media/mountpoint

as for doing it in windows.... I can't even map all my hard drives to
drive letters!

anyone?

Peter

>
> You didn't specify hardware, so I didn't suggest a virtual server
> setup.....but
>
> http://www.petri.co.il/virtual_install_vmware_server.htm
>
> if considering large drives see also
>
> http://communities.vmware.com/message/662212
>
> WINS is 'old tech' [in relation to DNS,] using netbios
>
> http://64.4.11.252/en-us/library/cc816610%28WS.10%29.aspx
>
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc750589.aspx
>
>
> Aitch
>
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>
>
>> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:27:06 +0100
>> From: pchilds at bcs.org
>> To: kent at mailman.lug.org.uk
>> Subject: [Klug-general] Samba....
>>
>> I want to be able to do two things not necessarily at the same time
>> but can't see why not....
>>
>> I've been asked to set up a File Server for a network of windows based
>> machines, So I'm guessing Samba here..... I guess I need to set up
>> Samba to run as a Windows PDC to sort out security and get all the
>> Windows XP Pro (I think thats what they have) to join the "Network"
>> Unless I can get the Samba server look like AD, but I'm not sure how
>> to go about this... They want passwords and some "Security" over the
>> files on the file server.....
>>
>> While doing a bit of reading up on doing this I worked out it should
>> be possible to use Samba to do shared home directories on Linux and it
>> should work *better* than NFS.
>>
>> Also can I join the Wins bit of the SMB to my DNS and not have so much
>> duplication of service.
>>
>> However I've found very few instructions on how, what where and when
>> with samba and was looking for a few starting places.....
>>
>> If I'm not making any sense, maybe someone can set me right.
>>
>> Peter.
>>
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