[KLUG Members] linux as print server (IT'S ALIVE...)

[Adam Williams]

>Further news:
>Commented out a line in smb.conf that read:
>guest account = (win9x machine name)
>and restarted samba with
>/sbin/service smb restart
>and "Samba Server" started showing up in Network Neighborhood.  I can browse users on the
>linux machine and view the contents if I know the passwords (which makes me now nervous about
>what is showing up on the internet).  Also browsed and set up the printer, the original task
>of this escapade.  Test page printed o.k.

Browseing from Win9x is done via an anonymous connection,  and thus
requires a guest account.  The username specifies in quest account must
be a valid user on the Linux box,  is {win9x machine name}?  Otherwise
since you specified something it must be defaulting to "nobody".  It is
best to create a dummy user account with no special permissions and
specify that.

>So, what does this all mean?

Windows networking is wildly complicated?

>I've printed out and read through man smb.conf (so how do you
>get man to print page numbers, that one's a whopper).  

:)

>But still need a bit
>of info on what's >going on.  Gotta be more details somewhere...   man
>something?  url?  book in the linux library?

I have a somewhat elderly presentation at 
http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/presentations/19991019/img0.html
that runs through a lot of the configuration directives.