[SWLUG] HELP for the terminally brain dead

[Julian Hall]

Justin Mitchell wrote:

>seeing windows disks from linux is achieved using smbmount or smbclient,
>  
>
I just use http://localhost:901 which is the url for SWAT (Samba Web 
Administration Tool).  It's a *lot* easier than manually editing files.  
In Mandrake go to the Mandrake Control Panel - System - Services, and 
make sure Samba and SWAT are running and that Samba is set to run at boot.

>the usual way to configure samba is by editing the /etc/smb.conf file,
>but samba isnt the easiest thing to tweak
>
Much easier using SWAT :)

>if you just want to have one or two areas of disk space be accessible to
>the windows machines, and not each users home directories, then you
>could try using WebDAV.
>
Problem with that is you have to have Apache installed whereas Samba 
presumably is :)

Kind regards,

Julian