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Title: How do I let admin see everything?
Post by: David Trask on July 13, 2001, 06:42:52 AM

Hi!
I'm using (or rather planning to use) e-smith as my primary server in a public school setting in place of a bloated and unneccessary Win 2000 server.  I was able to add all my users en masse using Darrells script and I love it.  My question is I (admin) would like to be able to see all of my users home folders in "Network Neighborhood" on my Win NT 4.0 server or my Win 98 desktop so I can copy and manipulate student files quickly.  Is there a way to do this?  If I can do it then I will have replaced every feature that I need with e-smith vs a Win 2000 server.  Any ideas?

Title: Re: How do I let admin see everything?
Post by: Ronald Tanis on July 13, 2001, 12:50:34 PM

You can add the /etc/samba/smb.conf and share all the /home and give admin all the rights you want

Title: Re: How do I let admin see everything?
Post by: David Trask on July 13, 2001, 06:12:46 PM

Ronald Tanis wrote:
>
> You can add the /etc/samba/smb.conf and share all the /home
> and give admin all the rights you want

Can you give me a little more info on how to do this?  I found the samba.conf file and I opened it to look at it, but I'm not sure what to enter and where.  Can you give me an example?  I'd really appreciate it.  Thanks  :-)

Title: Re: How do I let admin see everything?
Post by: Ronald Tanis on July 14, 2001, 12:52:18 PM

[home_shares]
   comment = home_directories
   path = /home
   valid users = admin root your_user_name
   admin users = admin root your_username
   write list = admin root your_user_name
   public = no
   writable = yes

you can also do this
[whole_linux_server]
   comment = whole_linux_box
   path = /
   valid users = admin root your_user_name
   admin users = admin root your_username
   write list = admin root your_user_name
   public = no
   writable = yes

every time when your linux_server restarts then you must fill this in,

With regards
Ronald

Title: Re: How do I let admin see everything?
Post by: David Trask on July 14, 2001, 07:40:03 PM

Hey!  Thanks!  I'll let you know if it works....I hope to try today or Mon.

Title: Re: How do I let admin see everything?
Post by: David Trask on July 16, 2001, 07:03:28 AM

It worked great!  Now I just need to muster the courage to dive in and make the switch from Win2k to E-smith....e-smith is a whole lot easier in my situation.  Thanks again!

Title: Re: How do I let admin see everything?
Post by: Ronald Tanis on July 16, 2001, 11:31:40 AM

Ok thats nice, if you have some more questions, let me know.


Ronald