Howtoforge.com has a lot of howto guides for Centos, Fedora, Debian, OpenSUSE, etc... --Gnunixguy On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Mike Bydalek < mbydalek@compunetconsulting.com> wrote: > There are a ton of guides for setting up Samba, just Google around. > Personally, I got tired of setting up Samba from scratch all the time, so > I've been using a Samba installer at http://majen.net/smbldap/ It works > with Debian/Ubuntu, CentOS, etc. > > -Mike > > Nadim Hoque wrote: > > Today I went to Boarders to purchase a opensuse 10.3 book (it is Opensuse > Unleashed by Michael McCallister) and I was wondering if it will work with > opensuse 11 (The thing is we do need a book/manual just in case assistance > is needed in my absence). Also if I wanted to use CentOS as the server is > there a good step-by-step guide to set up a samba server and perhaps > application server. > > > Michael Sammartano wrote: > > Nadim, > > If you are comfortable with openSUSE 11, then by all means use it! While it > is true the majority of the people on this list do use debian or RedHat > based products, SUSE is supported by several of us members. Many of the > people on this list and others have steered away from SUSE due to the > Microsoft agreement they entered into. This is fine (No flame wars please!), > but SUSE has been working with Microsoft for a year now, and have made SUSE > very simple to work along with their products. You will find the > opensuse.org website and the suse.com website provide more than enough > information to assist you in getting everything configured to work together > simply and quickly. Don't get me wrong, I am "not" a Microsoft fan. I do not > condone the agreement Novell entered into, I do believe in interoperability > as both operating systems and add on software target a specific user.The > more support that Linux gets in working alongside the windows platform, the > easier it is for the programmers have it to port additional software to work > with Linux. > > You will find that openSUSE will allow for file sharing with Windows users > with Samba. Follow the wizard in the YaST control panel. Printer sharing is > also easy in YaST. There are several Novell bundled apps that will also > assist in this configuration. I am running openSUSE 11 on a gPC that I > purchased from Wal-Mart last year, and I use the gPC "server" for > everything, including backup's. The setup is very simple.. > > Best wishes, > > Michael Sammartano > > > ---- Nadim Hoque wrote: > > I recently built a server (a q9300 core 2 quad, 8gb of ram, 1 terabyte > > of hard drive space) and I was hoping for now to have it as a simple > > file server and perhaps other types one day. There are about 25 > > computers on the network (24 windows 1 mac). Right now I am > > comfortable with opensuse 11, but I am willing to change to another > > distro (I liked fedora but I don't like selinux part of it) that is > > more suitable to a server. Also there is a program that is called > > Geosystems and according to the company the program can be run from a > > server on different computers. I don't know exactly know how this is > > supposed to work, but most likely I need this computer to have WINE > > installed to make it work (the company did say some of their clients > > use linux). The most important thing though is that it must be easy to > > use (very few CLI operations) because we do not have an IT department. > > If I do than is there a good step-by step guide on how to set up a > > server for files as well as an application and maintenance of the > > server. Also, I might need to know how to use a database program (like > > filemaker or access) and again it might have to run under WINE or > > something. I am for FOSS, but I do need to figure this out or I might > > unfortunately have to use Windows Server. > > > > Nadim Hoque > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- > Please visit > http://www.iconnetworksolutions.com > > > ------------------------------ > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >