I have been doing networking and electronics for more than 20 years, but am new to Linux. Mostly my experience has been DOD, CPM, Novell, and yes the Evil Empires NT/W2k.

I am trying to setup SAMBA on a Linux Fedora server and while I do not mind reading tech manuals, I find it difficult when there is no real roadmap to what/why/how and while there is a lot of good commented entries in the "/etc/samba/samba.conf" file, much of it assumes you know what the commands are doing, and what other commands are effected.

Is there a simple how to, or even moderately complicated :How To" on setting up Samba on a Red Hat Linux server to allow W2k, and XP clients to access files and directories, and if so where? I have done searches on the web, but must be looking in the wrong places.

Please point, and I will look and read.

Sincerely
Thank you
Allyn Llyr

http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba.html is good reading...

In addition there is also full documentation at:
http://samba.mirror.ac.uk/samba/docs/man/

For a full list of configuration options to use in smb.conf:
man smb.conf

Thank you all for the help, I think this gives me a better start.

Allyn