Greetings, I hope this is the right forum. I am looking to install Samba on my Linux box on my home network. I'm pretty sure I can deal with the how, I'm just not certain of the what.
ok I'm using Debian lenny with no GUI. I have apt working and I've successfully installed and used one package (ssh).
for now all I need is an easy way to transfer files between my Windows box and my Linux box, in as simple a way as possible. Sometime down the road I will look at simulating a professional network environment.
1. It is my understanding that there is only one package to download and install, presumably by
apt-get install samba. This gives you what you need to have linux shares accessible to Windows and Windows shares accessible to Linux. Naturally the configuration for each is different.
2. I am using
Network - Debian Wiki as a reference. I see there are various steps such as building a Linux Domain, and LDAP this and that. I was hoping someone could clarify what is the bare minimum needed to setup an easy file transfer mechanism such as I descibed. Does this require a domain and LDAP?
Like I said, it's the what rather than the how I need help with
thanks.