[Klug-general] Samba....

[Peter Childs]

On 26 April 2011 20:34, Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org> wrote:
> 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?

On second thoughts having just read wikiepdia, that might just work!
Wikipedia almost goes as far as to say....

so long as your using 2000 or XP or above it *should* just work!

I think I need to start eating my hat.

Peter

>
> 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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