[NTLUG:Discuss] Samba Configuration

Greg Hewett ghewett at d-techcorp.com
Tue Aug 7 10:11:37 CDT 2001


You're crazy...  there is no difference in swat and "man smb.conf."  Swat is
a great tool to use if you need the doc handy.


> first of all,
> forget swat.. It sucks..
> To have a really kick ass Samba server, you need to hand edit the file.
> 
> check out www.samba.org for more details..
> 
> here is a url
> http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html
> 
> At 10:38 PM 8/6/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>>I have having a difficult time getting Samba configured.  I am running
>>RH  7.1  I have used SWAT to configure the smb.conf file.  Testparm
>>checks ok,  Samba Status shows to  be running.  I can smbclient -L  to
>>other hosts,  I  just can not see my machine from my WinMe, Win98
>>network 
>>neighborhood.  Any suggestions?
>>
>>When I do manage to see it,  how do I share an ODBC database via Samba?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>David Wilson
> 
> 
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