More OpenSuse and Samba questions from beginner - please help

Well, I have installed OpenSUSE successfully (thanks for all the previous
help here!), although it took a bit of time. Quite a lot of stuff to
download during updates and patches in spite of a large installation DVD.

And my first question is how I can add download servers to the Online
Update service. I made a Novell Customer account, and my updates come
from the TUWien ftp server, which turns out is very slow from where I am.

I'm sure there are a lot more servers but the Online Update service
always goes back to this one server. Can one and if so how add more
servers to this service?

BTW, is there a way to update PCs that are offline all the time?

My second question is about something said in the install guide on the
OpenSUSE website: when you want to install a graphics driver, go to
'console mode'. Is this just going through Konsole, or really switching
off KDE and going to a CLI mode? If so, how do you do this?


I've also installed Samba Server and this went quite smooth thanks to the
guide on the OpenSUSE website.

But I still have a few questions: the guide uses the Konsole (smbpasswd
command) to add users. My training coach asked if this can be done in a
KDE screen instead. Basically he would prefer to have a GUI for all Samba
settings and configuration. Is this possible?

Furthermore, I'm only at the beginning of the installation and the server
is already available on the network. I've made 2 users sofar and I'm a
bit confused about their rights. I have only the default shares ATM. When
going to the Linux server domain via a Windows machine I can see al
users, after giving one user's password. When I try to go into the
directory of the other user, this is actually possible. I cannot go into
all subdirectories, but some subdirectories are accessible. Did I do
something stupid (probably ^_^) or forgot something (highly likely ^_^;)?
I thought that one user simply couldn't go into another's directory at
all. I am correct in that the rights management is done via the user
management in YaST, Samba just takes those to work with, right?

Sorry for lots of questions, still lots to learn!

Thanks!

Neko



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