Sams Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Hour 4: Installing and Testing the Configuration
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Samba can effectively act as a file and printer server for PCs in a group environment. The access-control mechanisms are handled using the underlying OS model with which you are comfortable: namely, the standard lpr printing system (or others) and the basic UNIX file permission bits. Creating group shares and remote printer shares is very similar to do equivalent actions on UNIX.
First, you must make sure that the resource is available for access from the UNIX side. For example, users can print to the print by executing lpr -Pprintername somefile.txt and that users can successfully access files in the directory to be shared.
Next, the shares need to be defined in Samba's configuration file. As you will see in the upcoming hours, many parameters exist to define and control these services.
Samba also includes many tools for administering the server and diagnosing problems. Two of the diagnostic utilities that you examined were smbstatus and nmblookup.
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