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From: nickf@ptd.net (Nick Folino)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is anyone using SAMBA ? H E L P !
Date: 16 Mar 1997 15:58:02 GMT
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On 14 Mar 1997 15:13:24 GMT, "Tony" <tony@gcr1.com> wrote:

>I'm attempting to get samba running on a 2.1.7 box but the commands and
>man pages suck !
>anyone have any experience dealing with this ?
>I'm looking to get it working, not study the stuff for 3 days just to still
>not have
>any strait answers !
>
>Thanks,
>Tony
>-- 

I think the man pages are great...I had Samba up and running in less
than an hour the first time I worked with it.  Make sure to read the
man page for smb.conf.  Basically all I did was add the following
lines to my rc.local :

/usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd -D -l/var/log
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -l/var/log -s/usr/local/etc/smb.conf

I don't know if there's any security risks running it this way...but
it's only connected to my Win95 machine so security isn't a problem
for me.

I'm sharing my ftp directory using samba and my smb.conf looks like
this:

[global]
comment = FreeBSD - Samba %v
log file = /var/log/samba.log
dont descend = /dev,/proc,/root,/stand

printing = bsd
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
map archive = no
status = yes
public = yes
read only = no
preserve caes = yes
strip dot = yes
security = share
guest ok = yes

[ftp]
path = /usr2/ftp
comment = ftp
read only = no



That's all there is to it....

Nick