Mandrake issue - Can't find ability to add samba shares
Well, it was easy with Redhat, but since Redhat doesn't include a driver for my onboard lan (mdk does), and without networking I'm finding it difficult to get one (I guess I could use a floppy or a cd...), I put mandrake back in and it works with all my hardware.
However, the rest of my network is Windows and I would like to enable sharing of the files on the linux box to the windows boxes. Redhat had a feature to add samba shares right in the menus. However, I can't find it anywhere in mandrake. I enabled the samba client/server packages so I know I have the software installed; I just don't know how to specified which directories are shared. |
You can try a couple of things :
Option 1. swat - Samba Web Administration Tool. Recommended. If your Mandrake distribution has swat active, you can access it by going to the following URL : "http://localhost:901/" with either Mozilla or Konquerer. If that doesn't work, swat is either not installed or not active. Do the following to check if 'swat' is installed : "rpm -qa |grep -i swat" - or - "which swat" - or - "man swat" If this results in something nice, you've got 'swat' installed. :-) Under Red Hat (which I use) 'swat' can be turned on via xinetd : "vi /etc/xinetd.d/swat" "service xinetd restart" I'm quite sure Mandrake offers something similar. Try to access it with URL : "http://localhost:901/" Option 2. Webmin. I'm not sure if Mandrake carries this. I think so. Try to access it with URL : "http://localhost:10000" Option 3. Use the plain old Unix way of configuring things : "cd /etc/samba" "man smb.conf" "vi smb.conf" Good luck! |
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