15 Nov
1999
15 Nov
'99
11:14 a.m.
On Nov 15, 0:52, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Basically Samba is Windows networking for non-Windows
machines. At work,
it's how the NT boxes access the data which for obvious reasons is kept
on
a real OS. Their are versions for most UNIX varients,
the Amiga,
OpenVMS,
and others. Since it's basically a Windows thing,
and I don't have to
deal
with it at work, I don't claim to know anything
about it. I can do a
basic
Samba install and with a lot of cursing get a
Win95/98/NT box to connect
to
it.
If you want useful info on it, I'd recommend http://www.samba.org because
I'm sure the info I just gave is both useless and questionable :^)
Oh, I think (since I have to look after Samba stuff under similar
circumstances) it's quite accurate. You just have to remember that the
cursing is, apparently, mandatory.
BTW, I've found the real trick of working with
Samba (on the Admin side)
is
remembering where the &)# @*^% smb.conf file on a
particular machine is!
That too :-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York