[COMP] Re: e-smith, inc. - index

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  • Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 13:25:16 -0500

> I was thinking that it would probably be trivial to setup a
> configuration script for samba.  Something that would make
> it VERY easy to at least get it running, would simply say "OK,
> we are going to configure SAMBA, if something doesn't work
> correctly then you can run this again by typing myprogramname
> at the prompt."  ... something like that, where it asks a few
> questions and then automatically generates the configfile and
> puts it in the proper place.

There are actually GUI config utils for Samba, but I haven't tried any of them.
 There's also SWAT, which is a mini webserver that'll do all the configuration
for you.  I'm not sure I'd trust it security-wise (I won't use it on production
machines), and the issue of ease of use comes up: is it really easier to go
through configuring swat just so you can configure samba?

John



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