Samba not fully installed

[tofo]

Have some problem getting samba to work in Kubuntu 7.10 and KDE.

My question 1 is: How could I do all this SAMBA stuff in the KDE desktop regarding SAMBA while it was not installed?

My question 2 is: Should the explicit samba shares published from the kubuntu machine be possible to see in the windows network browser without asking for credentials?


The full story:
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Read a lot about how to make samba work to be accessed from Windows XP and checked the samba settings in the system menu under System Settings - Network & Connectivity - File Sharing and did set up shares.

Even edited the domainorworkgroup parameter in the samba config file /etc/samba/smb.conf. (not a nice feature)

Finally figured out something was missing in the installation since everyone mentioned samba start/stop in "/etc/config.d/samba start" but i did not find "samba".

Now I ran "sudo apt-get install samba" in this primitive black window I remember from the 80's and it started to install big time and even started samba.

Still does not work but at least the kubuntu machine show up in the network explorer on WinXP machines so the rest should be credentials and permissions I think.

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Remarks:
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Some way to go before ordinary users that do not expect to open the hood be able to use a "GUI only" opearated system
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[tofo]

Re: Samba not fully installed

Update:

Now got SAMBA working with Kubuntu 7.10 and WinXP & 2003 Server

Configured basically like this in the etc/samba/smb.conf:

#====== Global Settings ========
[global]
browseable = yes
workgroup = nnn
server string = SAMBA server nnn
security = user
encrypt passwords = true

#======= Share Definitions =======
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = yes
valid users = %S
writable = yes

#======= Sharing 500GB disk =======
[SDA1]
path = /media/sda1/
browseable = no
writable = yes
valid users = user1
comment = SDA1 500GB NTFS Storage

[WWW]
path = /var/www/
browseable = no
writable = yes
valid users = user1
force user = root
comment = Apache WWW

To map as drive t: for user "user1" at MS Windows systems command prompt:

net use t: \\<Samba Server IP or DNS Name>\<Sharename>\ /user:user1

"For real information - go to the source" : http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/...TO-Collection/