<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Thanks for the pointer.  That helped a lot, I think I learned more from the comments in th smb.conf file then anything.<br> <br> Ben Rousch wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:d92a2d930808011021r5aae63ebr6ccc1e91b7d219e7@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr">To install Samba: sudo apt-get install samba<br> <br> You can then start by checking out <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba</a><br> <br> If you're a hands-on, learn-as-you-go kind of guy, open /etc/samba/smb.conf in your favorite text editor. There are a lot of comments in there to help you along.<br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Iron_Man <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jeremy.b.leonard@gmail.com">jeremy.b.leonard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div bgcolor="#cccccc" text="#000000">Hello Everybody,<br> <br> I have an old box that I just finished installing Ubuntu 8.04 on, and I was thinking of setting the box up as a file server (samba maybe?).  This is the first time that I'll be using Ubuntu as a server and was wondering if somebody could point me in the right direction. <br> <br> Thanks.<br> </div> <br> --<br> ubuntu-us-mi mailing list<br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ubuntu-us-mi@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-us-mi@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-mi" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-mi</a><br> <br> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> </blockquote> </body> </html>