Good suggestion, Steve. I just moved smb-share to /home (not /usr). If
that's wrong, let me know.
One other thing. I'm not using DNS on the Linux box, AND there seems to be
a box my ISP's DNS knows about that has the same name as Tux400. So,
earlier attempts to contact Tux400 might have been somebody else's box.
Woops! Hope that's not the FBI knocking....
I tried to use IE to connect to //192.168.1.200/smb-share (Tux400's ip
address/sharename) but got nothing. No user logon prompt - just a "page
cannot be displayed" message.
W2K's command "net use" doesn't work.
Tux400 does appear in the Network 'Hood.
Duh! I just discovered I can fire up Konqueror as SU and edit any text file
with any editor. No more vi for me! I'm liking Linux better then Unix,
now!
Ken Elliott
Clearwater FL 33755
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/kelliott4/
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From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Steve
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:18 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Samba help for Linux Newbee
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On Saturday 10 April 2004 02:14 pm, Ken Elliott wrote:
> I'm an experienced user with Windows NT/2000 server, and some
> HP-UX/Xenix. But I've never used Linux much until this week. Trying
> to get Samba to work. I can ping the boxes and Win 2000 sees the
> Linux box in the workgroup. So the networking side seems OK. But I
> can't seem to get them to see each others shares.
>
> Problem: Window 2000 "Rufus" can see SuSE 9.0 Linux box "TUX400" in
> the workgroup "KENET", but cannot access any shares. When I click on
> TUX400 to view it's shares, I get this W2K Error message: "\\TUX400
> not accessible. Path not found."
>
> Shares:
> ken (/usr/ken) Linux user
> kennt (/usr/kennt) Linux user
> smb-share (public)
I want to point out that usr does not mean users directory. It stands for
user land directory, i.e. files not part of the actual operating system.
- From a security viewpoint it's better to keep peoples documents in their
home directory. I.e. /home/ken. If home is on a seperate partition you can
make that partition f.ex. non executable and/or unable to run system files.
It also means staying true to the Posix standard that Linux is adhearing to.
The usr partition then can be a read only partition stopping any hacker or
virus wanting to change files. If you need to update it you can do it after
you remount the partition as read-write.
I add a smb dir where I put all the samba-shares in under home.
- --
Steve
"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
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