samba: reading files from my Windows 2000 machine from my RedHat Linux machine.

samba: reading files from my Windows 2000 machine from my RedHat Linux machine.

[Mark Rew]

Hi :Lists,

Can someone refer me to a straight forward step-by-step guide to setting up my
Windows 2000 and RedHat Linux 7.3 Machines to allow me share files from the
Windows to the Linux?

I have read several interesting documents that gave me the history of SMB and
described UDP, TCP and port numbers 137:139 etc.  This has been some of the
most interesting reading since I took Distributed Systems in the Fall of 2000.
But!  Since, I'm in a work environment where I need to get something working
quickly, I need a more direct document that gives a how-to, if I know IP
addresses, group domains, and how to share Windows.

Any pointers to a simple guide will be grately appreciated.

thanks
Mark Rew
e-mail: mark.rew@noaa.gov
301-713-0262 x131

Re: samba: reading files from my Windows 2000 machine from my RedHat Linux machine.

[Steve Holmes]

I don't have step by step directions to give you quickly, but I can
refer you to the smb.conf that samba uses on the linux side and I can
mention some basic things to do on the windows machine.

First of all, to get windows out of the way, you will need to "share"
the drive/directories on the windows box.  Not sure how to do it in
2000 but in '98, you could designate share names from the explorer
pane.  Also you need to have "client for Microsoft networking" active
to enable the sharing.

Now for the linux side; In the versions of smb.conf I have seen from
the standard samba distributed archives and from slackware packages,
just follow the comments and fill out things as you see fit.  The
workgroup must be the same for all machines in the workgroup.  I
personally like the linux box to act as the "master browser; I
understand only one machine is supposed to assume this role.
Actually come to think of it, I don't think there's much needed to be
done on the linux side so files on the other machine can be accessed.
You can test things out with the smbclient, a crude command-line based
thing with which you can get and put files from the windows box.
After you get this checked out, you can then take up mounting files to
mount points on your linux system so files can be accessed just like
other files on your box.  That is done with the smbmount command like
so:
smbmount //winbox/share /mount-point
To do this, your kernel must have smbfs support made available.
Without smbfs support, you will have to stick with that smbclient.

HTH.

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 05:32:03PM -0400, Mark Rew wrote:
> Hi :Lists,
> 
> Can someone refer me to a straight forward step-by-step guide to setting up my
> Windows 2000 and RedHat Linux 7.3 Machines to allow me share files from the
> Windows to the Linux?
> 
> I have read several interesting documents that gave me the history of SMB and
> described UDP, TCP and port numbers 137:139 etc.  This has been some of the
> most interesting reading since I took Distributed Systems in the Fall of 2000.
> But!  Since, I'm in a work environment where I need to get something working
> quickly, I need a more direct document that gives a how-to, if I know IP
> addresses, group domains, and how to share Windows.
> 
> Any pointers to a simple guide will be grately appreciated.
> 
> thanks
> Mark Rew
> e-mail: mark.rew@noaa.gov
> 301-713-0262 x131
> 
> 
> 
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Re: samba: reading files from my Windows 2000 machine from my RedHat Linux machine.

[Scott Howell]

For a good comprehensive document on Samba, go to the Samba web site,
http://www.samba.org and read the book they have available. Its quite
good and will get you up and running quickly.
Can't say about winblows 2000, but had no real problem getting 98
working. Was a matter of editing the Samba config file and setting home
directories and workgroup name. Set that up on the winblows side and off
we go.

good luck

Re: samba: reading files from my Windows 2000 machine from my RedHat Linux machine.

[Adam Myrow]

If you have it, you can also enable SWAT which gives you a web interface
to configure things.  Of course, it operates on a non-standard port,
usually 901, and you want to keep outsiders from getting at it if you do
enable it.  It requires the root password before you can do anything, but
it is an easy way to set things up.

Re: samba: reading files from my Windows 2000 machine from my RedHat Linux machine.

[Gregory Nowak]

I've always done my samba stuff by hand. How well does SWAT work with lynx?
Greg


On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 08:42:05PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> If you have it, you can also enable SWAT which gives you a web interface
> to configure things.  Of course, it operates on a non-standard port,
> usually 901, and you want to keep outsiders from getting at it if you do
> enable it.  It requires the root password before you can do anything, but
> it is an easy way to set things up.
> 
> 
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Re: samba: reading files from my Windows 2000 machine from my RedHat Linux machine.

[Adam Myrow]

SWAT works fairly well with Lynx.  It has graphics, but they aren't
necessary at all to configure it.  It basically has options each followed
by help buttons for each.  You can certainly do it by hand, too.  It's
just a nice convenience to have around.

Re: samba: reading files from my Windows 2000 machine from my RedHat Linux machine.

[Janina Sajka]

I would say that swat works excellently well with lynx. I particularly 
like that each configuration option is paired with option specific help. 
If you don't know what that configuration is all about, the help button 
for that option is right there. And, when you left arrow to return to the 
document, you're coming back to the same spot in the form.

I suppose I could think of ways to make swat more accessible, but it's a 
pretty short list.
 On Wed, 7 Aug 
2002, Adam Myrow wrote:

> SWAT works fairly well with Lynx.  It has graphics, but they aren't
> necessary at all to configure it.  It basically has options each followed
> by help buttons for each.  You can certainly do it by hand, too.  It's
> just a nice convenience to have around.
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Re: samba: reading files from my Windows 2000 machine from my RedHat Linux machine.

[Edward L. Barnes]

Hi there Adam and list.
I'm curious!
Is Swat included on standard or speakup modified Red Hat media or should 
I search for it on the internet at a site like www.rpmfind.net
Reason I ask is because I don't have my RH cds here at homeat the 
moment and this looks like a neat package which I might play with.
Thanks!

Ed Barnes
Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, Canada
home phone +1-709-596-3165
e-mail and msn messenger id ebarnes@enigma2.cjb.net
********
"There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but
this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the words 'innovative'
and 'successful.' Microsoft products are successful -- they make a lot of
money -- but that doesn't make them innovative, or even particularly
good." -ROBERT X. CRINGELY
********


On Wed, 
7 Aug 2002, Adam Myrow wrote:

> If you have it, you can also enable SWAT which gives you a web interface
> to configure things.  Of course, it operates on a non-standard port,
> usually 901, and you want to keep outsiders from getting at it if you do
> enable it.  It requires the root password before you can do anything, but
> it is an easy way to set things up.
> 
> 
> 
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Re: samba: reading files from my Windows 2000 machine from my RedHat Linux machine.

[Janina Sajka]

Swat is included. You need to turn it on by editing a file in 
/etc/xinetd.d/



On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Edward L. Barnes wrote:

> Hi there Adam and list.
> I'm curious!
> Is Swat included on standard or speakup modified Red Hat media or should 
> I search for it on the internet at a site like www.rpmfind.net
> Reason I ask is because I don't have my RH cds here at homeat the 
> moment and this looks like a neat package which I might play with.
> Thanks!
> 
> Ed Barnes
> Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, Canada
> home phone +1-709-596-3165
> e-mail and msn messenger id ebarnes@enigma2.cjb.net
> ********
> "There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but
> this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the words 'innovative'
> and 'successful.' Microsoft products are successful -- they make a lot of
> money -- but that doesn't make them innovative, or even particularly
> good." -ROBERT X. CRINGELY
> ********
> 
> 
> On Wed, 
> 7 Aug 2002, Adam Myrow wrote:
> 
> > If you have it, you can also enable SWAT which gives you a web interface
> > to configure things.  Of course, it operates on a non-standard port,
> > usually 901, and you want to keep outsiders from getting at it if you do
> > enable it.  It requires the root password before you can do anything, but
> > it is an easy way to set things up.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Re: samba: reading files from my Windows 2000 machine from my RedHat Linux machine.

[Adam Myrow]

IIRC, the SWAT package is sepparate from Samba in Redhat.  In Slackware,
they are one package, and the file to edit in Slackware is
/etc/inetd.conf.  In Slackware 8.1, it's all there and you just uncomment
the right line.  In Slackware 8.0, you had to add it to /etc/services and
add it to /etc/inetd.conf as well.

Re: samba: reading files from my Windows 2000 machine from my RedHat Linux machine.

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123]

If the samba-swat package is installed, it's easiest to do:
chkconfig swat on


          Bill



On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Swat is included. You need to turn it on by editing a file in 
> /etc/xinetd.d/
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Edward L. Barnes wrote:
> 
> > Hi there Adam and list.
> > I'm curious!
> > Is Swat included on standard or speakup modified Red Hat media or should 
> > I search for it on the internet at a site like www.rpmfind.net
> > Reason I ask is because I don't have my RH cds here at homeat the 
> > moment and this looks like a neat package which I might play with.
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Ed Barnes
> > Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, Canada
> > home phone +1-709-596-3165
> > e-mail and msn messenger id ebarnes@enigma2.cjb.net
> > ********
> > "There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but
> > this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the words 'innovative'
> > and 'successful.' Microsoft products are successful -- they make a lot of
> > money -- but that doesn't make them innovative, or even particularly
> > good." -ROBERT X. CRINGELY
> > ********
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 
> > 7 Aug 2002, Adam Myrow wrote:
> > 
> > > If you have it, you can also enable SWAT which gives you a web interface
> > > to configure things.  Of course, it operates on a non-standard port,
> > > usually 901, and you want to keep outsiders from getting at it if you do
> > > enable it.  It requires the root password before you can do anything, but
> > > it is an easy way to set things up.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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> > 
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Re: samba: reading files from my Windows 2000 machine from my RedHat Linux machine.

[Keith Watson]

Hello all,

Thought I might share this with you. Recently I had a need to
duplicate a 110 gig Winblows file system from one winblows box to
another. Hmmmm, winblows has some tools to do this but with very
little assurance factor. I looked into rsync on a windows box,
nice idea but from all the reading i did I got the idea that it
would only replicate from winblows to a linux server. Shelved
that one for later use. Next I looked at samba. Found the perfect
solution there. Using the following command I was able to mount
the two shared directories and use my linux server to rsync from
one winblows system to another.

smbmount "\\\\server\\share" /mountpoint -o
username=linuxrox,password=winblowssux

I had to use the double quotes because the share had a space in
it.

Hope this helps someone. And oh by the way, to unmount the mount
point just use:

smbumount /mountpoint

Good Luck.


On 07:07 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
> For a good comprehensive document on Samba, go to the Samba web site,
> http://www.samba.org and read the book they have available. Its quite
> good and will get you up and running quickly.
> Can't say about winblows 2000, but had no real problem getting 98
> working. Was a matter of editing the Samba config file and setting home
> directories and workgroup name. Set that up on the winblows side and off
> we go.
> 
> good luck
> 
> 
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-- 
Keith Watson
kwatson@smed.2y.net

Among the major impediments to discovery are not the ignorant
but those with illusions of knowledge.    - B. Alan Wallace

Re: samba: reading files from my Windows 2000 machine from my RedHat Linux machine.

[Adam Myrow]

Another thing to keep in mind is that if Windows doesn't like the password
you give it even though you know it's correct, try it in all caps.  That
has helped me in the past especially with Windows 98 and older.