[Ubuntu Chicago] Networking Woes

[Matthew Angeles]

Rich Johnson wrote:
> Matt,
>
> SMB or Samba is the way to go for simple sharing. Setting up NFS is a bit more 
> tricky and is used for a little more advanced stuff that sharing between a 
> couple of systems. So you have SMB/Samba installed, edit /etc/samba/smb.conf 
> to use your workgroup name. It is just a few lines down and has ' workgroup 
> ='. Of course change this to your workgroup, and you will be good to go.
>
>   
This worked so well, Thank you. I am going to take come screenshots and 
whip up a guide. Configuring a SAMBA server was super easy. I already 
had the work done. One last question, how secure is SAMBA server and 
will other be able to hope on my network and see my files?

Matt