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Simple Samba Tutorial For A Home Workgroup - Redhat - WindowsForum

What is Samba?

Samba allows a Linux machine to communicate within a Windows workgroup or domain. Basically, it's FIle and Print sharing, for linux, on a Windows network.

Interesting...How do I do it?

Download the latest version of samba (at the time of writing) from HERE.

Untar using the following command, or right-click and select "extract here":

tar -zxvf samba-3.0.9.tar.gz

Change to the directory created.

cd samba-3.0.9

Run Configure

./configure

Run Make

make

Run Make Install

make install

We now need to enter the name of the workgroup. Open your favourite text-editor in root and open the file /etc/samba/smb.conf. Scroll down to here ( it's not far ) :

#======================= Global Settings =======================

[global]

## Browsing/Identification ###

# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of

workgroup = HOME

Where it says "workgroup = HOME" replace "HOME" with the name of your workgroup.Remember the capitals.

Save the file and I suggest now rebooting. Login, and then login on another Windows system and view My Network Places. You should be able to see the shared files from your LInux box there :)

To view the network from Linux, either look for it in your favourite file browser, or in the address bar of your favourite file browser type smb:/// and select the workgroup.

If you have anymore queries just ask in this forum :)

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