[GRLUG] Suse

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 21:00 -0500, Lee Forest wrote:
> installing samba can be fairly easy with the right package manager.

Installing Samba is very easy with any (apt/yum/zypper) of the current
package managers on any of the current mainstream distributions. 

Let's see..

zypper install samba   (openSUSE)
yum install samba3     (Fedora / CentOS)
apt-get install samba  (Debian / Ubuntu)

The trouble isn't installing it, it is configuring it.  Samba is
especially challenging as the user needs to understand both UNIX and
LINUX concepts.

> 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.

On SuSE/openSUSE YaST2 will allow you to setup a basic Samba server.
But for anything beyond the basic configuration your going to have to go
into /etc/samba/smb.conf (regardless of the tools/distribution).  The
best thing to do is to take a look at:
<http://us6.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/>.  Avoid third-party
docs.

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