Samba – updating my very old version Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. Or, in other words, it allows your computer to look like a Microsoft File Server. I first wrote about Samba almost four years ago. Both Samba and FreeBSD have come a […]
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Samba authentication through PAM with MySQL Ed. note: Randall actually wrote this article back in November, but I’ve only just put it on the site today. Note: this assumes you have Samba, mySQL and pam_mysql already installed and running on FreeBSD 4.0 or greater The following describes how to setup Samba, PAM, and mySQL such
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Samba authentication of Windows users Rick Oliver wrote in with this article. Thanks. Rick writes: I’ve gotten samba to authenticate a user based on the windows login name. Here are the steps (you must have su powers to do any of this). Create the samba users vi your smbpasswd file in (/usr/local/private/smbpasswd) and make sure
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Samba – connecting FreeBSD to Microsoft The main page for Samba is http://www.samba.org/ You might also want to see the NFS article. NOTE: If you want to access Microsoft file systems from your FreeBSD box, you want Sharity-Light. 18 October Samba is a port which allows a FreeBSD box to share file systems with a
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samba – using non-standard host names This article shows you how to use non-standard host names. By default, samba uses the hostname of the machine on which it is running. In some situations this can cause a problem. The problem Some time ago, I installed samba and recently I found it wasn’t working. I could
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Making Samba win browser elections One of the things that occurs from time to time is a browse election between NT and Samba. I prefer to let samba win. Here’s how to do it. This information is from smb.conf and is second hand. I haven’t tried it yet, but I will eventually. os level =
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Samba – connecting FreeBSD to Microsoft The main page for Samba is http://www.samba.org/ You might also want to see the NFS article. NOTE: If you want to access Microsoft file systems from your FreeBSD box, you want Sharity-Light. 18 October Samba is a port which allows a FreeBSD box to share file systems with a
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Samba – connecting FreeBSD to Microsoft The main page for Samba is http://www.samba.org/ You might also want to see the NFS article. NOTE: If you want to access Microsoft file systems from your FreeBSD box, you want Sharity-Light. 18 October Samba is a port which allows a FreeBSD box to share file systems with a
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