[Sussex] Connecting SuSE 9.2 to Windows XP

[John D.]

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 11:57 +0100, Ronan Chilvers wrote:
> John D. wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 09:48 +0100, David Chapman wrote:
> >
> > p.s. any replies you get on how to configure samba, well I'll be keeping
> > an eye open, because I still have managed to do that either!
> 
> SWAT is your friend.  Install the SWAT package and then browse in
> Firefox (or whatever) to http://localhost:901.  Complete web interface
> for samba.  You can configure both global and share specific settings
> with it.  Once you've got a working share you can then have a quick peek
> at the smb.conf file to see what it did.  Samba configuration (I've done
> it a few times but am by no means Samba fluent) is pretty
> straightforward but can be frustratingly devoid of error messages.
> However SWAT will help get a working service going and you can then work
> from that.


Thanks Ronan,

All I have to do now, is find the SWAT e-build in the "portage tree" (if
there is one), otherwise It'll be a case of working out how to install
"whatever" package type it is in the "normal"? way!

Ha, I may be back to ask some daft questions though (nothing new there!)

regards

John D.