[Sderby] Suse

[Clive Jones]

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On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 9:32 pm, mark wilkes wrote:
> Anyway,  why is suse not working ? Do I need to re-install it and configure
> as a domain server ? Can I not do this now using yast2 ? Do I need to
> purchase additional s/w ?

Can you ping the windows machines from the suse box?  If you can, then 
networking is working correctly.

The software you need to cope with windows protocols (NMB/SMB) is called 
Samba.  It comes with suse, so no additional software is required.

To get it working the following should help:

Using the runlevel editor in yast2, you need to ensure that the services SMB 
and NMB are started in levels 3 and 5.  Older versions of SuSE do not have a 
NMB entry, so don't worry if they are not there.  The comand line can also be 
used to do the same thing, i.e. as root

# chkconfig smb on
# chkconfig nmb on
# rcnmb start
# rcsmb start


As root, edit the file /etc/xinetd.conf, and comment out the line near the top 
which disables swat, the samba web administration tool.  Restart xinetd.

Once smb/nmb are running, and xinetd has been restarted, point a browser to:

http://localhost:901/

and you will get the web interface where you can set shares, printers etc.

HTH

Clive.

PS  What does a domain server do - does anyone have a decent URL that explains 
the windows terminolgy?
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