Re: Samba

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

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Lynn Kilroy wrote:
[snip]
> #### Debugging/Accounting ####
> 
> # This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine
> # that connects
>    log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
[snip]

> Logfile is actually missing. I just looked for it. Unless it's hidden
> or soemthing, which makes no sense at all.
> 
> If there were errors, there would be a log file, correct? And since
> there is no log file, we can assume there are no errors.

Or samba is not running. Did you start samba?

# /etc/init.d/samba start

Please go ahead and install the documentation, if you haven't done so
already. Package: samba-doc

Reading and understanding
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-ByExample/index.html
should get you running.

Additional reference is found in
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/index.html

> This is the configuration file. I copied it TO my Windows PC, and I
> can recover it FROM the Windows PC. This means that the Windows PC and
> the Linux machine can communicate. However, I can not log on to the
> Linux machine from the Windows PC.

Samba is about copying files from and to windows. If you want to log
into you linux box, you could use a terminal like ssh.

What is it actually that you want to achieve?

> I have repeatedly indicated this is the problem, and there is as much
> detail as I am aware of that's going on.

You should buy and READ a book that introduces you to the basics of linux.

> One last thing: There is no manual page for smb.config.

Type "man smb.conf" (without quotes) on a line of your terminal.

> You need to create a space hog file in your root directory called
"-rf." Then unlink it.

Why?