I have recently added a second NIC to my Debian box and connected a small Netgear hub. I have connected a second PC running Windows 98 to the hub. My primary network card is connected to a cable modem which uses DHCP to obtain dynamic IP address. I have allocated a private internal IP address to the second card. I am running squid so that I can point the second PC to it and get a basic Internet connection. I did it this way because it is simple and I find networking something of a Black Art.
I would now like to be able to print and possibly send files to my Linux box from the Windows machine. I have been doing some reading and have installed Samba, but have made little progress. I am not sure how to set up Samba - I have been through the /etc/samba/smb.conf and made an attempt to set up a password with smbpasswd. The trouble is, what exactly am I setting the password for? Is it the password I will need on the Windows machine to access my Linux box? Do I need shadow passwords (don't even know what they are!)? Does anyone know if there is an idiot's guide to setting this up anywhere? A guide which does not assume a great deal of prior knowledge of networking? Many thanks. -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL AND NEWS / \
