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
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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

