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#! rnews 2405 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!saluki-news.wham.siu.edu!slip106.termserv.siu.edu From: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Samba/Win95 Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 14:08:26 CST Organization: Southern Illinois University Lines: 28 Sender: NNTP@slip106.termserv.siu.edu Message-ID: <22a56156.aef8a@slip106.termserv.siu.edu> Reply-To: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: slip106.termserv.siu.edu Comment: AmigaNOS v2.9p In-Reply-To: <4olc8l$42p@uuneo.neosoft.com> (from jkurtz@starbase.neosoft.com (John Kurtz)) (at 30 May 1996 23:50:45 GMT) X-Mailer: //\\miga Electronic Mail (AmiElm 6.24) Hi John, on May 30 you wrote: > Has anyone successfully setup a network using Samba under FreeBSD for a > series of Win95 machines? What I am looking for is the smb.conf example > and the typical configuration of the Win95 machine... Need a reply soon. I have yet to do the Samba-FreeBSD-Win95 set up, but I am experimenting with Samba on Sun Sparc-5 (Solaris 2.4). First of all, there should be a rather long example configuration file with Samba (at least there was with 1.9.15p8). I don't have a Wintel box, but did test a Win95 and Win-3.1.1 box once I got the Samba server running. The Win-3.1.1 couldn't access my Samba server whereas the Win95 box could. I believe that there is a difference in protocols and/or drivers in Win-3.1.1 that prevents it from working. Anywho, once I had my Solaris Samba server running, I could use Filemanager in Win95 to access whatever disk service I had "exported", so there wasn't any setup required under Win95. You would be looking for a "network drive". If the Win95 boxes are using LAN manager (v ???), then they could NET LOGON connected to your "shared resources" before they started up Win95. All that is needed here are the Samba server and services names to include in the NET LOGON command. No other configuration is required. Secondly, the Samba SMBD documentation covers a lot of issues with regards to the configuration file. It is a little strange if you haven't worked with LAN Manager stuff before, though.