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Samba pre-install questions.
Post 302348642 by fguy on Friday 28th of August 2009 10:09:14 PM
08-28-2009
Thanks it's working fine. as suggested installed the three packages. a couple of observations
some of the steps mentioned on the page you linked were not presented, in particular there were no prompts for password issues. also the workgroup name was added automatically to smb.conf as part of the install. otherwise is was helpful for the install.
for the actual setup of the shares, I found this page helpful, very clearcut
SAMBA Windows Linux file sharing notes
damn but apt is slick. Coming in I actually though it might be a little trickier than windows to download and install stuff. Guess I was wrong.
some of the steps mentioned on the page you linked were not presented, in particular there were no prompts for password issues. also the workgroup name was added automatically to smb.conf as part of the install. otherwise is was helpful for the install.
for the actual setup of the shares, I found this page helpful, very clearcut
SAMBA Windows Linux file sharing notes
damn but apt is slick. Coming in I actually though it might be a little trickier than windows to download and install stuff. Guess I was wrong.
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REGTREE(1) [FIXME: manual] REGTREE(1) NAME
regtree - Text-mode registry viewer SYNOPSIS
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The regtree utility prints out all the contents of a Windows registry file. Subkeys are printed with one level more indentation than their parents. OPTIONS
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This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite. SEE ALSO
gregedit, regshell, regdiff, regpatch, samba AUTHOR
This utility is part of the Samba[1] suite, which is developed by the global Samba Team[2]. This manpage and regtree were written by Jelmer Vernooij. NOTES
1. Samba http://www.samba.org/ 2. Samba Team http://www.samba.org/samba/team/ [FIXME: source] 04/16/2014 REGTREE(1)