Please send any corrections to michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca.
This document attempts to provide hints and answers for basic problems
encountered when setting shared directories, print services, user
accounts and access control on the Samba server. Nothing here cannot
be found in already existing documentation for Samba and or MS-Windows
but it may not always be easy to find, especially for folks not used
to reading documentation. :-)
On the other hand the full documentation is much more detailed and
touches on many points not even mentioned here.
There are many variations on this basic theme and the author has seen only some of them. Further, Samba itself develops and changes rather quickly, especially at present as we move towards version 2.0. It has become very popular and gains contributions and technical informations from quarters previously unexpected. Therefore these answers may not always be absolutely valid. They may also depend on specifics of your network and the version of Samba you are running; especially when it comes to browsing. Please contribute and correct at will!
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