Samba on Ubuntu - is it really this difficult?

[Aroon Pahwa]

im having lots of issues with samba and file sharing with my windoze
box as well.  unfortunately, i have no idea what im doing.  i was
suprised to see that nautilus could see all my windoze boxes without
any help but it failed to go anywhere past that (ie.  access any
machines, list or access any shares, etc).  I realized that samba
wasnt actually installed (wt?) so went ahead and installed it used
synamptic.  still no change in behaviour.  i started the samba deamon
using smbd (thats how you do it right?).  i also changed my workgroup
to the same as the rest of my windows boxes using the configuration
manager.

anyone have some advice.  im sure im missing a lot of steps in the
process, many of which would lead to my failure as a human.  i havnt
gotten a chance to google "setting up samba on Obuntu" yet.

aroon pahwa
viperstyx at gmail.com


On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 23:49:22 +0100, Andy <ubuntu at arda.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Andy A wrote:
> 
> > Aargh!  Why is Samba so hideously difficult to set up on Ubuntu?  Did
> > I not read somewhere Ubuntu it is meant to be 'user friendly'?
> 
> Not a full response to your problems, but if you just want to access
> files on another Samba or Windows box, you could try installing smbfs
> and then mounting the shares with smbmount. That's my normal way of
> doing it on any Linux box and it's worked fine for me on ubuntu (just
> remember to set smbmnt and smbumount setuid root if you want to be able
> to mount and unmount as user).
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> 
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