Samba

This video is a response to a new Ubuntu user who needed help with printing from his Ubuntu machine to a printer connected to a Vista computer. You'll need Samba for this to work.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1253252

This guide aims to help those people who are interested in configuring their Ubuntu boxes to login using an account from a Windows Domain. This is particularly important to integrate Ubuntu computers in large Windows networks. I have got this to work using a Windows 2003 Server with an Ubuntu Server 9.04.

Hi:

This is a guide combining knowledge from lots of tutorials and come up with the easiest way to setup a domain controller for windows. There is a complete tutorial from rickyjones here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=640760 . Many thanks to rickyjones, without his help I wouldn't able to come up this tutorial. If what you need is a quick start tutorial with the simplest setting as possible. This one is what you need. If you are trying to have a complete settings, you should probably go to the rickyjones one. This tutorial assume you understood the basic knowledge of linux. For example, you should know how to go to edit mode, save and quit in vim.(It's fairly simple) Some settings you will need to change to the way you like. Let's get started.

Question:

Hello all,

I have a little problem. I created an FTP Server using Linux Ubuntu Server6.0, and VSFTPD for work. Basically I wanted our managers in other States to be able to rwx on their particular directories. Then I wanted us here at our corporate office to have a mapped network drive on our machines. Each of the managers has their own home folder (abc, def, geh) under our shared folder here at the office(aaa). I set all the users (abc, def, geh & aaa) to have the same primary group (manager).

Question:

Everything is set up on Linux box, test print shows as sent and can see data going via wifi card, but shared printer on xp box is doing nothing. Having read this fault on other threads does not seem to have a fix for this issue any suggestions pse I am sure its the xp box. But in saying that on Linux printer settings is available 'Windows printer via Samba' does this mean the Samba client is already installed because neither Samba or GSAMbad are installed. Its being found by the Linux Samba service.
Alistair.

I wrote this HowTo in order to get an easy way to manage Samba share in a domestic lan (let's say home or very small office situations), where resides 2, 3 or more machines (with mixed OS contemplated).

Take in consideration that this is a very basic configuration and is not intended for complex or sophisticated network cases/needs.

The preparation
First of all, because this guide is intended for all of *ubuntu variants, we need to install an editor valid for all distributions for simplify the following commands explained later in this guide.

sudo apt-get install scite

Of course we need to install Samba daemon

Justification and Notes
- There are plenty of tutorials on the ubuntu forums that cover samba shares or printer sharing but I'll suppose that you want the fastest, easiest, least troublesome method to share files and printers with windows
- I'll attempt to provide the simplest method to do so in this guide
- For convention sake (rules for publishing a tutorial), author declares that no support is guaranteed.

Assumptions

- You want to share files & printers quickly and easily in a home environment

I'm starting this howto because a lot of people seem to be under the impression that you have to reboot Ubuntu to get certain changes applied. However, when working with Ubuntu, or Linux in general, it is important to remember that rebooting is a Windows CrazyThing (TM). The only thing you should really have to reboot a Linux machine for is for changes to the kernel. All other things you can reload/restart/whatever at run-time. This is due to the modular nature of the Linux system. Why do you think Unix systems have the highest uptime?

Well anyway, lets get this started. I propose we make this kind of a collaborative effort since i'm by no means an expert (yet) and there's some stuff I don't know. So i'll just add what I do know and we can just add to each others knowledge, ok? Alright then.

The graphical user interface
As most of you know, you can refresh the gnome panel with the command: