samba

On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 06:09 AM, betty wrote:

>
> thanks to Chris re; samba, have disks, will try that tomorrow :-)
> sounds not too difficult. ;-)
> betty i

Hi Betty.

Samba really is pretty easy.

I thought of a couple of things I should have mentioned before. When
you first install Samba it's mode is 'Off' You want to use SWAT to
change that to 'On'. This leads to the thought that before you install
it, you might want to check that it isn't already there and just
turned off. Again, just try to point your browser to
<http://localhost:901>. If Samba-SWAT is installed, that will work even
if Samba is turned off.

The other thing is that whenever you use SWAT to change the Samba
settings, you have to 're-boot' Samba to get the new setting to take
effect. You can reboot Samba by rebooting your computer or by becoming
root and typing:
/bin/kill -HUP -a xinetd
in a terminal window.

I hope that helps. Just ask if you get stuck. I do use Samba all the
time and, once you get it set up, it just works.