a little samba help

albi albi at scii.nl
Fri Dec 30 13:19:36 UTC 2005


On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:52:05 -0600
Wade Smart <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:

> 12292005 2044 GMT-5
> 
> I have been reading about getting samba installed.
> Im reading 
> http://help.ubuntu.com/starterguide/C/faqguide-all.html#sect-samba-server
> at ubuntu about getting it up and running.
> 
> I am in need of a  little clarification.
> 
> On number 3 under samba it says,
>     Add network user:
>     smbpasswd - a system_username
>     sudo gedit /etc/samba/subusers
> 
> Ok. Add network user. What group does this go in - admin?

personally i like the webmin-module for samba, with that you can easily
define shares, users, passwords, permissions for users, permissions for
the shares etc.

sudo apt-get install webmin-samba

-- 
grtjs, albi
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