Samba, from f#$kdora to Ubuntu

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:

> Hey All,
> snip
> I can do everything out of the box (well everything
> once I enable a 
> certain non-free repo which took all of 2 Min's
> reading Google), 
> however the only thing not operational on it that my
> desktop needs is 
> Samba server as I have some dirs I need to share
> with my winblows weenie 
> housemates, I've always been one to use the Samba
> tarball, but I thought,
> well trying a new distro maybe I should try theirs,
> however the help 
> forum says apt-get install samba, there is no such
> thing, it's broken into 
> client and common according to apt-get, and can't
> locate the -server 
> option, do I need to be slapped or is it just not
> there?
> 
> Cheers
> 
Welcome to Ubuntu, Res,

I'm running Feisty and have samba(the server)
installed along with other components.
What version ubuntu are you running?
Try running "aptitude show samba".  It should show if
it's installed and give a description of the samba
program.
Note: Samba is optional; not automatically installed.
If you have the "main packages for updates and
security in you sources.list you should be able to
install samba by this command:

sudo aptitude install samba

Hope this helps,

Len

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net