[mdlug] doing the Samba.

[Jeff Hanson]

On Dec 6, 2007 8:54 PM, Garry Stahl <tesral at comcast.net> wrote:
> Does someone have the simple as in ABC method of setting up Samba on my
> Linux box to share a single Fat32 drive with my XP box?  Remember KISS.
> Keep It Simple for Stupid.
>
> I have installed Samba on Gate, I figured that would be step one.  The
> XP machine is named Faux if that is important.

If you don't have a login server to keep track of accounts and
passwords, you can set up an unauthenticated peer-peer config.  On
Ubuntu, in /etc/samba/smb.conf:

[global]
   guest ok = yes
   map to guest = bad user
   guest account = nobody
   invalid users = root

This lets anyone access the shares - XP user without an account,
anyone on your LAN, wireless, and the entire Internet if you don't
have a firewall.  You still have to set up a share for the drive.

[sharename]
path = /media/fat32drive
available = yes
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes