Citizen Bleys
09-19-2003, 02:16 AM
I decided to (at least temporarily) set up my server using RedHat 7.3 (wasn't sure anything more recent would run on that 128 MB of RAM). NAT was easier than hell to set up, just added 3 lines to a config file and it worked without further configuration, which was nice...but then the stuff that I thought would be easy turned out wrong.
I installed Samba during the install, went through Services and checked it to start automatically and then manually started it.
rpm -q Samba gave an answer, verifying that samba was installed.
So I go into etc and try pico smb.conf so that I can share some directories so that I can drop files in from my Windows client, and get "new file"
exit out, and try cd / followed by whereis smb.conf
Returns output of smb: (blank line)
I'm a lazy ass. I don't want to manually type out the entirety of smb.conf by hand, and even if I did, the fact that it should be there and isn't seems symptomatic of a bigger problem.
I *can* use smbmount to mount a Windows share from the server, but it's the client I'll be sitting in front of all of the time.
Oh, and by the way, the vnc viewer won't contact the server, but I don't know bugger about setting up a vnc server. I know the vnc server was installed at the time I installed the OS, but I expected that I'd just have to give my root password to administer the server remotely via VNC...the viewer won't even contact the server though. I know I've got the IP address right (192.168.0.1)
And Unne, don't put in a link to Gentoo.org. My server's CPU is an Athlon 700. I've spoken to someone who took five days just to *install* Gentoo with a 500 MHz system. I don't plan on going 5 days with no internet whatsoever just so that I can install Gentoo on a server that I'm not even going to be using save through a client.
I installed Samba during the install, went through Services and checked it to start automatically and then manually started it.
rpm -q Samba gave an answer, verifying that samba was installed.
So I go into etc and try pico smb.conf so that I can share some directories so that I can drop files in from my Windows client, and get "new file"
exit out, and try cd / followed by whereis smb.conf
Returns output of smb: (blank line)
I'm a lazy ass. I don't want to manually type out the entirety of smb.conf by hand, and even if I did, the fact that it should be there and isn't seems symptomatic of a bigger problem.
I *can* use smbmount to mount a Windows share from the server, but it's the client I'll be sitting in front of all of the time.
Oh, and by the way, the vnc viewer won't contact the server, but I don't know bugger about setting up a vnc server. I know the vnc server was installed at the time I installed the OS, but I expected that I'd just have to give my root password to administer the server remotely via VNC...the viewer won't even contact the server though. I know I've got the IP address right (192.168.0.1)
And Unne, don't put in a link to Gentoo.org. My server's CPU is an Athlon 700. I've spoken to someone who took five days just to *install* Gentoo with a 500 MHz system. I don't plan on going 5 days with no internet whatsoever just so that I can install Gentoo on a server that I'm not even going to be using save through a client.