From gardner@sounddomain.com Fri Mar 16 10:37:46 2001 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id KAA37668 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:37:44 -0800 Received: from web1.sounddomain.com (web1.sounddomain.com [204.29.20.153]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id KAA03412 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:37:44 -0800 Received: from avatar.cardomain.com (cardomain_office [206.63.254.78]) by web1.sounddomain.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA18782 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:36:38 -0800 From: Jonathan Gardner To: UW Linux Group Subject: Getting started with Samba Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:29:37 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0103161037251E.12751@avatar.cardomain.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Okay, I am *not* a network administrator. I am however completely satisfied with Linux as a desktop platform, and I find that I am using windows hardly at all now. Problem is that everyone else is using windows, and they set up an office NT server. So if I want to be able to access the shared data and stuff, I have to be able to use the windows network. Sounds like a job for Samba, right? Well, maybe I'm lazy or maybe I know too little about windows networks (and not enough about linux yet!), but where do I get started? Is it easy to set up just a client and start browsing their files and using their printers? Anyone had a good experience with Samba? Also, if you can use a linux box as an NT Server through samba, maybe we can have all those web pages and scripts on our development servers available through the windows network to the windows boxes - rather than forcing them to use SSH to edit the files directly or FTP to move files back and forth. Is it as easy/easier/not much more difficult to get a samba server set up, or just to share files on the windows network with a linux box? I got the "Using Samba" book, but it is much more detail than I think I need. -- Jonathan Gardner gardner@sounddomain.com (425)820-2244 x123 .