NewTlug Meetings:2000-08-22

From GTALUG

Date Tuesday August 22, 2000

Speaker Terry Tanski

Topic Samba

Location SGI Canada 5800 Explorer Drive, Mississauga Closest main intersection: Eglinton & Renforth

Meeting Minutes

Announcement

Date: Tuesday, August 22 Time: 6:30pm Place: SGI, 5800 Explorer Drive, Mississauga (see http://toronto.linux.ca/newtlug1.html for directions and Map)

Topic: Samba - Linux and Windows interconnectablity Presenter: Terry Tanski

This will be a howto and demonstration style talk:

  • demos of both the client side and server side including connecting to/from Win2000, Win98
  • using SWAT - "Samba Web Administration Tool" web based configuration interface
  • encrypted password/authentication
  • sample scheme(s) to backup entire (mixed Linux and Windows) network to one or more Linux Samba servers

For those who would like to readup on this topic here are a couple of resources:

   http://us1.samba.org/samba/samba.html 
   http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/Samba-Tips/Samba-Tips.html 

We expect this to be a very popular topic so arrive early to get a good seat - even the back-room-boys will want to sit upfront for this one ;-)

       Herb Richter <hgr_at_buynet.com> 
       Richter Equipment, Markham, Ontario
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