[CS-FSLUG] Samba and XP - why a problem?

[Hilding]

Short explanation about my needs:
The small PC (in the basement) is connected with a router to the big one 
(on flat 1). The big one has got a printer USB local, and I would like 
to print the documents made on the small PC. Therefore I have been 
looking for Samba. It is only two PC involved with one router, and I am 
using the IP-numbers, 192.168.0.2 (the big one) and 192.168.0.3 (the 
small one).
The big one has got XPHomeEdition and Ubuntu/Fedora. The small one has 
got Fedora/Ubuntu (Ubuntu crashed this evening). With SSH I have 
connection between the two computers and even printing. Now I would like 
to get something printed without changing from XP to Fedora on the big 
PC.  And they tell me, that Samba will make this possible.

Hilding Egestal


l4c skrev:
> Tim Young wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>> Sorry to do this to you, but I have run out of time for a while.  :)  So 
>> if there are other samba gurus out there on this list, can you help out 
>> Hilding?
>>
>>     - Tim
>>     
> Whats going on?  Trying to join a few winderz machines to a samba share?
> Supposing that you want the share to be authenticated, you do the following:
> 1)Set your share up in the smb.conf.  For example:
> [media]
>     path = /mnt/ext
>     valid users = linc
>     public = no
>     writable = yes
>     printable = no
>     create mask = 0765
>
> 2) See your "valid users" up there?  They should be set to your windows 
> login names.  They also need to be set up with an account and password 
> for samba too.   You do that by adding the username in unix, then 
> assigning a samba password to it thusly:
> useradd linc
> smbpasswd linc
> and tell it the *same password you use in windows* for that account name.
> 3) repeat 1 and 2 for any extra users and shares.
> 4) restart samba (just reboot your machine if you don't know how - the 
> proceedure is different for different distributions).
> 5) assuming you have the rest of you samba conf set up correctly, you 
> should be able to mount the share (Map Network Drive) under winderz as 
> if it was a windows share.
>
>   

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