playing with samba in a linux-only environment?

[Boggess Rod]

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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 01:57:16 -0500 (EST)
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
Subject: playing with samba in a linux-only environment?
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  i *think* i've asked about this before but i didn't see any
responses and there was a period when my posts to this list were not
making it out.

  can i set up a simple samba-based network in a linux-only
environment?  i'll be teaching another linux admin class in january
and i'm told the students will want to see at least the fundamentals
of samba.  however, the classroom will have no windows systems (that
is something over which i have no control), but theoretically, if i
can set up one linux box as a samba server and another as a samba
client, surely i can at least show what the setup *would* look like.
and (also theoretically) it should work, yes?

  thoughts?

rday

p.s.  i'm also going to experiment with some VMs to do that part of
the class but, for now, i'd like to keep it simple as i have limited
control over what i can do with the classroom systems.

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It works fine. I was going to suggest that you run Windoze in a VM to
demonstrate how it really looks (from windows perspective), but you've
certainly already considered this. Another interesting experiment is to
use remote desktop in Linux to Linux. (I've only done either of these in
10.04.)

Sounds like fun! Let us know how it works out.