On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 06:09 AM, betty wrote:

>
> thanks to Chris re; samba, have disks, will try that tomorrow :-) 
> sounds not too difficult. ;-)
> betty i

Hi Betty.

Samba really is pretty easy.

I thought of a couple of things I should have mentioned before. When 
you first install Samba it's mode is 'Off' You  want to use SWAT to 
change that to 'On'. This leads to the thought that before you install 
it, you might want to check that it isn't already  there and just  
turned off. Again, just try to point your browser to 
<http://localhost:901>. If Samba-SWAT is installed, that will work even 
if Samba is turned off.

The other thing is that whenever you use  SWAT to change the Samba 
settings, you have to 're-boot' Samba to get the new setting to take 
effect. You can reboot Samba by rebooting your computer or by becoming 
root and typing:
/bin/kill -HUP -a xinetd
in a terminal window.

I hope that helps. Just ask if you get stuck. I do use Samba all the 
time and, once you get it set up, it just works.