Re: Samba Server/SWAT

From: James R. Jones (okieman7_at_cableone.net)
Date: 04/30/05 

Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 09:11:18 -0500

Charlie wrote:
>
> I am attempting to set us a Samba server. Just to share music and
> pictures with the other computers in my house (XP Home,XP Pro, SUSE
> 9.2), I am using SUSE 9.2 on the machine I would like to make the server.
> I have some good directions that seem easy enough to follow. However
> I have still encountered two problems. In smb.conf I am supposed to:
> scroll down and uncomment:
>
> ;[public]
> ; comment = Public Stuff
> ; path = /home/samba (change to what you will use on your computer)
> ; public = yes
> ; writable = yes
> ; printable = no
>
> However my smb.conf does not contain a [public] section. I know the ;
> causes the line to be a comment. So should I put this section into
> smb.conf? In the path line it says /home/samba (change to what you will
> use on your computer), I dont know what it is refering to. My machine
> name for this machine is linuxthree, the XP Pro machine is XPPRO, the
> other linux machine is linuxfour.
>
> Please gear any answers for an inexperienced newbie.
>
> Thanks
> Charlie
>

I have a public folder that is called public that is in the root folder.
it is setup like what you have except the path is /public. If you create
a folder don't forget to set the permission so anyone can use it. If you
get stuck I have a pretty decent simple samba.conf file you could use to
get up and running.

Jim 

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