Filepro-list Digest, Vol 42, Issue 52

[Boaz Bezborodko]

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> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:07:42 -0700
> From: Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com>
> Subject: Re: Filepro-list Digest, Vol 42, Issue 48
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
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> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007, Fairlight wrote:
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>> >Only Boaz Bezborodko would say something like:
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>>> >> 
>>> >> What I learned in the process is that the learning curve on Samba was 
>>> >> steep enough that I probably would have been better off moving FP to 
>>>       
>> >
>> >I don't recall samba as having a steep learning curve.  man smb.conf
>> >I've been through older versions (2.x) and newer (3.x) and had to migrate
>> >between the two.  It's never taken more than a couple hours to figure out
>> >what was wrong.
>>     
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> I've found that using the standard ``swat'' web configuration tool very
> helpful, particularly as it provides on-line help for every option.  It's
> part of the standard Samba distribution, and runs on port 901.
>
> John Terpstra's books ``The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide'',
> and ``Samba33 by Example'' are also excellent.  These are available as PDF
> downloads from the samba.org site as well as in the dead-trees versions.
>
> ...
> Bill
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>   
I didn't bother with SWAT because I read somewhere (during my initial 
forays into Samba) that it wasn't a good tool to use.  Right now I use 
it to be able to see open files by user and haven't really looked at it 
much further.  I might do so sometime in the future.

Boaz