Samba huh?

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Apopatos · Post by **Apopatos** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:20 am

I installed Gnome-2.10 and Samba. I am able automatically to browse window$ shared directories in my home lan through nautilus file manager, but I didn't do a thing to configure samba... My /etc/samba/smb.conf file is completely empty... How Samba can search my network???

Crisis · Post by **Crisis** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:35 pm

The samba client and samba server (smbd, nmbd) are seperate. To setup a samba server you will need to configure it.

ter_roshak · Post by **ter_roshak** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 2:03 pm

Apopatos wrote:I installed Gnome-2.10 and Samba. I am able automatically to browse window$ shared directories in my home lan through nautilus file manager, but I didn't do a thing to configure samba... My /etc/samba/smb.conf file is completely empty... How Samba can search my network???

This is a function of Nautilus (in Gnome) which allows you to view Windows shares. Samba, as stated by Crisis, only has to be configured if you want to allow other machines to access your non-Windows machine via the SMB protocol.

Apopatos · Post by **Apopatos** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:17 am

So my samba client runs automatically while I need to configure only my samba server in the /etc/samba/smb.conf?

bertaboy · Post by **bertaboy** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:41 am

Apopatos wrote:I installed Gnome-2.10 and Samba. I am able automatically to browse window$ shared directories in my home lan through nautilus file manager, but I didn't do a thing to configure samba... My /etc/samba/smb.conf file is completely empty... How Samba can search my network???

Well, you're already ahead of me thusfar. I have Gnome-2.10 and Samba installed, but I can't browse my windows shares....

christsong84 · Post by **christsong84** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:53 am

Apopatos wrote:So my samba client runs automatically while I need to configure only my samba server in the /etc/samba/smb.conf?

yup...that's the gist of it. It's two seperate commands to browse and serve...smbd is for serving...smbclient is for accessing.

Apopatos · Post by **Apopatos** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 3:30 pm

bertaboy wrote:Well, you're already ahead of me thusfar. I have Gnome-2.10 and Samba installed, but I can't browse my windows shares....

Sorry bro I can't help you, I didn't do anything... it worked automatically

I only installed first gnome and then samba...

bertaboy · Post by **bertaboy** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 6:09 pm

Apopatos wrote:
bertaboy wrote:Well, you're already ahead of me thusfar. I have Gnome-2.10 and Samba installed, but I can't browse my windows shares....
Sorry bro I can't help you, I didn't do anything... it worked automatically
I only installed first gnome and then samba...

Hmm, samba seemed to install automagically during my Gnome install. Maybe I'll have to re-install samba...

My problem has been that all of my samba programs work fine except for Nautilus, though. xfsamba4 works fine, for example....

darkphader · Post by **darkphader** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 8:08 pm

Using smbfs or cifs (kernel options) you should be able to use Windows shares without the use of the Samba utilities smbclient and nmblookup and therefore Samba isn't needed for this. However, Nautilus may rely on and therefore call the Samba utilities directly, and if so may not work to browse Windows shares with Samba unmerged.

Without Samba configured and started, Samba "proper (the server)" isn't running at all, there is no Samba client secretly running in the background, just those provided utilities that run when a program (like Nautilus) or user calls them.

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