On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 04:38:18PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:19:40PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > > > > I installed samba_2.2.0.final-2.deb but ran into a problem. Profile > > loading by W98 clients does not work for me. > > > > Can ayone please either confirm or deny that they are having the same > > problem so that I know where to start looking. > > > > And has anyone got samba debs for potato? > > i've got potato and did "apt-get install samba" and it installed, > no problem. > > executing was the problem. it started making tcpd clone itself > (very slowly -- five in one day) while eating up 98% of all cpu > attention. > > luckily "apt-get --purge remove samba-common" worked pretty well, > too. > > so my windows users still get to use ftp until i understand > (which is unlikely, as i don't speak the brogue that the samba > docs are written in). > You're probably running samba from inetd, that isn't a recommended config. Try running as daemons.
You also need to know if your windows boxen use a NT Domain. Each user needs an account on your box, or allow all shares guest access. I use guest only on a zip disk sharing comp. Specific users on the file server... Mike
