I want to have an extra instance of Samba running on a server. This is for XP home users as they can't authenticate against the domain (and setting up a full Debian install in Xen just for a few users is more than I ideally want to do..).

After googling around I found this at Samba.org :

http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Mult...rver_Instances

The link shows the solution, only thing is this :
"this document is RHEL centric for the interfaces and file locations".

What I hope someone can help out with is giving me the right Debian file locations equivalent to RHEL.

This is the RHEL stuff I would like translated into Debian :

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
/usr/bin/modify_samba_config.pl
the startup script in the beforementioned link

Looking forward to any help on this..

Just because samba is configure to allow domain logons, it doesn't mean that a client has to be a member of the domain and logon to use the shares, if your Windows XP Home machine has the same user and password as a valid account on the server you should be able to connect to the shares 'normally'.

PS, I don't think you'd be able to run two instances anyhow because they'd both want to bind to the network interface.

My server has two nics connected to different networks and I have two instances of samba, the only way it works is if one instance is only allowed to bind to one interface the second instance to the second interface

Thanks for replying, didn't know that XP could connect as workgroup to a domain!

As for two instances, that is not a problem, the link is to Samba's official way of doing it. You don
t need more NICs either, I've set up interface aliases in Debian before (webserver) and you can have loads of "virtual" network interfaces if you like