How do I setup samba properly.. It is installed and so is ksambaplugin (samba configurator for kde).. I think i have it setup right but i cannot get my moms winxp laptop to see the printer on my computer... How do i go about doing all this. Also how do i get it to autostart i dont see that it starts

You can get Samba to start on boot by logging in as root and using pkgtool. You will need to go into the Setup section followed by the Services section (I think its called services, I'm currently not at my slackware box right now), from there you can select Samba to start as a service on boot.

For configuration I usually use SWAT which is provided with Samba. Please read through the documentation at www.samba.org to get it up and running it's not that hard and the guides are well written (a very good resource). Any more specific problems you have I will be more than happy to help out with

i am a samba user (not the admin)

it is possible for me configure it with SWAT

anyone that can help me setup samba properly to connect 2 my 2 computers... They dont require a username and password to connect and its only windows xp computers

You can generally mount any samba shared directory on a remote computer with the following:

mount -t smbfs //SERVERNAME/sambashare /mnt/sambashare -o username=USER,password=pass

This is if you have samba installed on your slack box, and you've created the directory "sambashare" in your /mnt directory. If you've compiled from source, make sure you configured with "./configure --with-smbclient" before you "make; make install".

You can also add /etc/fstab entries so you can mount the share with a simple "mount /mnt/sambashare" by adding this line in /etc/fstab

//SERVERNAME/sambashare /mnt/sambashare smbfs username=USER,password=PASS

I hope this helps...

I'm trying to get a Linux box to access a Samba share that the Windows boxes already can. When I try it gives an error:
Why or how do I need to configure smb.conf on the clients?

i get the same error id be interested to find a cure, samba seems to work anyhow.

In the /etc/samba directory, there's a smb.conf-default (or something along those lines). Just rename it to smb.conf, and you're done. You can also edit the file and set your workgroup and other parameters.

As for the "cannot resolve mount point" error for "/mnt/export", make sure that directory does indeed exist.

It does mount fine now although there is a strange permissions problem.

When I use the samba share from a Win2k box I have full access (read/write) to the directory. When I access the share from a linux box, using the same name & pass, I only have read access. I'm not sure what the deal is on that.

do you have permission problems even as root?

RE: not being able to log in from Win boxes, I think Samba will only accept connections from users with a valid user name and password on the box running the Samba server. Also, I think you have to do a user add in Samba. Then you have to make sure the Win box is sending the correct user name and password, same as set up on the Samba box.

I have Samba running on a Slack 9.1 box serving multiple Win 98se and Win 2000 pro boxes, including remote boxes over vpn. It took some doing, and it was a set up about 6 months ago, so I don't recall all the details.

Also, I ran in to problems when I created directories on the Samba box logged in as root. Caused permission problems and denied access later when accessing from the Win boxes. I decided it was best to make any directory/file changes as one of the Win clients/users, and I don't ever work in those directories/files on the Samba box.

Also, you can set the default umask for the Samba files to avoid permission problems. I set mine up using swat. The box it runs on is console based only, no X.