Samba on Ubuntu - is it really this difficult?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 06:57:35PM -0400, Aroon Pahwa wrote:

> 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.

The "samba" package contains the server bits, which you only need if you are
sharing out data from Ubuntu.  It is not necessary in order to access data
on remote Windows shares.

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 - mdz