WIn98 + Linux - Samba

[Bray]

Here's the deal. I'm currently using 2 Win98 systems and a Linux box running Redhat 7.0. I have been tinkering around seriously with Linux for a few weeks now. I have gotten the Linux eth0 up and running (thank god), and I can ping the other systems and access the internet via a gateway: So far so good.

What I want to be able to share files between the systems using something compatable with Network Neighborhood. I am currently downloading Samba to allow this interaction.

However... (this is where the twist comes in) I have tried to play around with Radhat 6.0 a few months ago. Me, knowing nothing about linux at the time, and nothing to loose, I just went ballistic with netconf and the other net setup programs. Somehow, I managed to get both windows systems to be able to see the Linux box. However, I had (and still) no idea how to assign sharing over the network using Linux.

So now, on another system running Redhat7, I have no idea how that happened or how to re-do it.

Any ideas on that one? I'm all out. :confused:
Also, if someone could help with sharing, that would be MUCH appreciated!

Thanks, Bray

[bdg1983]

I've yet to tinker with Samba myself, but there is plenty of material to read out there.

The Samba NHF on this site.

A free online book on Samba available here (http://infobase.informit.com/linux/) at Informit.

And a wealth of others through any of your search engines.

[bdg1983]

Once you have the nics pinging each other, samba isn't hard to get to working. Some points you should have worked out first though like:
Use the same workgroup name in smb.conf as the win pcs use.
Use encryped passwords (in smb.conf)
Create a directory to share ([public] section of smb.conf)
Use (create) the same name/password combos in each win pc, linux user, and samba user. FOr example, wife's pc is using teresa/sissy for name/password, so I created a linux user named teresa with sissy as password, then also create (smbadduser) a samba user with teresa as name, and sissy as password. Then go to the next win pc and repeat the same process for each user.

It took me a long time to get samba working the first time, but once I realized what items I had to accomplish, it became easy to do.