Filepro-list Digest, Vol 42, Issue 48

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007, Fairlight wrote:
>Only Boaz Bezborodko would say something like:
>> 
>> What I learned in the process is that the learning curve on Samba was 
>> steep enough that I probably would have been better off moving FP to 
>
>I don't recall samba as having a steep learning curve.  man smb.conf
>I've been through older versions (2.x) and newer (3.x) and had to migrate
>between the two.  It's never taken more than a couple hours to figure out
>what was wrong.

I've found that using the standard ``swat'' web configuration tool very
helpful, particularly as it provides on-line help for every option.  It's
part of the standard Samba distribution, and runs on port 901.

John Terpstra's books ``The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide'',
and ``Samba33 by Example'' are also excellent.  These are available as PDF
downloads from the samba.org site as well as in the dead-trees versions.

...
Bill
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