Samba3 by example is a good book
You can get the PDF free online.
Uses real world examples and
Starts with the basics and takes you
Through the more complicated setups.
Raspberry pi file server is another good
Search term I've used recently. I have
Stumbled across a few decent entry level guides on Samba.
Sent from my iPhone
On 1 Oct 2012, at 19:16, "Rob Malpass" <linux@???> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Does anyone know of a particularly readable tutorial on Samba? When I’ve setup samba shares so Windows machines can see Linux boxes before, it’s been pretty much a surprise that they’ve worked. Ditto getting Linux machines to be able to write to NAS boxes as non-root users.
>
> My current problem is trying to make a directory on an external USB HDD on an Ubuntu host available as r/w to a Windows host. I can make said host see and read from a folder under /home/whoever but (even soft linking /home/whoever/test to /media/ExternalHDDname is failing.
>
> To make matters worse, the gnome users and groups admin thing has failed completely i.e. click “Add” and it doesn’t add a user, nor can I delete one –all in all a bit of a meltdown really!
>
> There are of course thousands of pages about samba and I’m sure O’Reilly would be its’ usual encyclopaedic – but all I want is to understand how users and groups work in Samba so I can set appropriate permissions – anyone know of a good resource?
>
> Cheers
> Rob
> --
> Please post to: Hampshire@???
> Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire
> LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk
> --------------------------------------------------------------
--
Please post to: Hampshire@???
Web Interface:
https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire
LUG URL:
http://www.hantslug.org.uk
----------------------------------------------------------------
Please post to: Hampshire@???
Web Interface:
https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire
LUG URL:
http://www.hantslug.org.uk
--------------------------------------------------------------
