|                 Samba is an open source implementation of the SMB file sharing protocol that provides file and print services to SMB clients. Samba allows a non-Windows server to communicate with the same networking protocol as the Windows products. 
 
 Samba GUI Config Tools:
 
 KSambaPlugin  is a KDE  plugin for configuring a Samba server.  It consists of a KControlCenter module for all SAMBA options and a Konqueror properties dialogue plugin with right click integration for sharing a directory. KSambaPlugin 
 is already installed in VL SOHO 4.0 Just open KControlCenter and to Internet&Network -> Samba Configuration.
  Configure Samba:
 
 Below there is a /etc/samba/smb.conf file.
 
 You can see that it is configured under the [global] section to connect to a windows workgroup called MSHOME
 
 Under the [public] section you can see that I've set up a /shared folder as a share.
 
 With the settings below a windows pc can browse and share files with a Linux pc and visa-versa
 
 
 Global Settings
 
 
 [global]
 workgroup= MSHOME
 browseable = yes
 server string=%h (Samba %v)
 dns proxy=no
 name resolve order=lmhosts wins bcast host
 log file=/var/log/samba/log.%m
 max log size=1000
 syslog=0
 panic action=/usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
 security=SHARE
 encrypt passwords=true
 passdb backend=tdbsam guest
 obey pam restrictions=yes
 invalid users=root
 map to guest=Bad User
 passwd program=/usr/bin/passwd %u
 passwd chat=*Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
 client use spnego=no
 load printers=no
 printing=cups
 printcap name=cups
 socket options=TCP_NODELAY
 display charset=iso8859-1
 unix charset=iso8859-1
 preserve case=yes
 case sensitive=no
 short preserve case=yes
 os level=20
 ;   preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom
 ;   postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom
 
 [public]
 path = /shared
 public = yes
 writable = yes
 create mask = 0777
 browseable = yes
 
 
 
 Restart Samba:
 
 Samba must be restarted everytime you make a change to the /etc/samba/smb.conf  file.  To restart samba from the command line with /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart .
 
 
 Browsing Windows Shares from Linux
 
 In order to view a share on the Windows box from within Linux you can use 
 Konqueror
with smb:/ are I'd recommend downloading the following tool.
 
 
 GUI Share Browsers:
 
 Smb4K is a SMB (Windows) share browser for KDE. It uses the Samba software suite to access the SMB shares of the local network neighborhood.
 
 
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