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The first thing you need to decide on is how you are going to configure Samba. Use the method you prefer, and after this, we will refer to "configuring Samba to use xxxx", instead of telling you how to configure it.
The current suggested options are (in suggested order):
* manually editing smb.conf - run 'vi /etc/samba/smb.conf' in one shell, and 'man smb.conf' on another - of course, you can use whichever text editor you like to edit smb.conf, and there are other ways to read the manual page.
* the Mandriva Samba configuration tool - install the drakwizard package, run drakwizard as root, and select the 'Samba server' option.
* webmin, the web-based general configuration tool. You must have installed the webmin package to use this.
* SWAT - http://localhost:901. You must have installed the samba-swat package to use this.
If you are interested in learning about samba, manually editing the configuration file is really the suggested option. For people who just want to use it without becoming an expert, drakwizard is the best option. If you need to administer the server from a machine without an X server and you don't want to manually edit the configuration file over ssh, then webmin is preferred. SWAT is the last resort, since it removes all the comments from the default smb.conf file. Most of the configurations we will look at are already in there, and just need to be uncommented (but that's only possible for the manual edit option).
source :http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/SysAdmin/Server/Samba
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