[GRLUG] Suse

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 09:00:22PM -0500, Lee Forest wrote:
> installing samba can be fairly easy with the right package manager. I
> like ubuntu myself. and if any user had a question about how to share
> files with windows computers many linux users can point them to samba,
> in Ubuntu you can go to "add/remove programs" and do a search for
> samba. in the results you see samba, and gadmin-samba which is a
> graphical administration tool. I think if the user has a network
> currently up and running they should have some general idea about
> network setups, setting up a samba server isn't quite as scary with
> the graphical tools, in fact you might be surprised how easy it can
> be. If you have KDE checking out smb4k might be nice. great little
> samba share browser.

Speaking of samba browsers, I recently came across smbc.  It's a console
samba file manager.  At work I need to view a file on a Windows share
once a week from my Linux laptop.  I used to use smbget from the command
line but sometimes the filename is tricky (it's usually based on the
date; 11.29.08.pdf but sometimes has a letter or two; 11.29.08a.pdf) so
the ability to browse for it is wonderful.  Did I mention it's a console
app?  :-)
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