GLLUG meeting topics

[Adam McDougall]

I heartily suggest trying out SWAT when creating a new config or making
simple changes, its the web based samba configurator that comes with samba
and its really easy!  It lets you setup shares as well as general
configuration, has help links inline, supports setting every possible
option I know of, lets you stop/start/restart the daemons and check daemon
and client status.  It even lets you know what it did under the hood by
letting you view the config file.  It can make the file pretty simple
from scratch because alot of options you think you might need are
defaults.

On 3 Apr 2001, Matt Graham wrote:

> COnfiguring smbd and nmbd, for making a Linux box serve SMB shares like it was
> a DozeNT box, should be straightforward but there are an awful lot of options.
>  The manpage for smb.conf is 9500 lines long, almost as long as the man page
> for bash(!)  The big thing to watch out for here is permissions problems. If
> you're using a RedHat machine and having lots of different people access a
> Samba share from 'Doze, the
> user-private-never-to-be-sufficiently-damned-groups feature will make it
> impossible for users to use each others' files.  To get around this, you set
> the "force group", "force directory mode", and "create mask" options for the
> share in question to appropriate values.  ("smbusers", "2775", and "775".
> Sacrificing security for interoperability, hoo boy.)