[CS-FSLUG] Ping Josiah: A service opportunity

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 15:01, Ed Hurst wrote:
> "Hello, my name is Joe Clueless, a new Linux user. I would like to 
> network my SuSE box to my wife's XP box. Could you please outline for me 
> what is necessary to make this happen. Both machines have a NIC, 
> detected and working. The primary objective is file sharing at this 
> point. Aside from giving her an account on my machine, what do I need to 
> do?"
> 
> At one point, you mentioned you were familiar with this territory. 
> Others may also add input, but the objective is to put together a 
> Clueless User's Guide chapter on LAN. In the end, it will be published 
> on Ofb.biz, I hope.

I'd be glad to help. You will of course use Samba3, but that's a given.

You can pretty much drop any idea of running your own domain, unless you
want headaches. Config samba to be a workgroup member. I have a much
different setup here. I play in the domain territory. It should be
pretty easy.

I haven't really setup a Lin client to an XP share, but that should be
an easy LinNeighborhood share away. What might be easier in getting
someone setup is a program that reads the samba config file and configs
itself from that. Does such a thing exist?

I've actually been thinking about playing with this at home. I installed
SAMBA ages ago, but haven't managed to get around to the config part
yet. I should have some free time Sat. to play with it and see what
hitches might exist.

JSR/