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From: Moshe on 28 Mar 2010 14:44
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:23:25 -0700 (PDT), RayLopez99 wrote:

> On Mar 28, 6:10�pm, Moshe <goldee_loxnbag...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Here you go:
>>
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202605&highlight=samba
>>
>> Over 800 posts on how to get it working....
>>
>> Good luck!
>> You'll need it :(
>
> Thanks, I was afraid of this. Do you know anything about "Virtual
> Box"--a guy at another forum claims it's so easy to set up...but I
> think it will be like Samba.

I know nothing about Virtual Box but I'm sure you should be able
to find a How-To.



> If it was so easy to dual boot and/or set up a virtual directory,as
> John and others claim in this thread, everybody would have done it by
> now, if nothing else than to surf the net in supposed better security
> (though I've not had any problems under Windows).
>
> I'm serious.
>
> RL
>
> HOWTO: Setup Samba peer-to-peer with Windows
>
> As many fellow Ubuntu users seem to have trouble setting up samba peer-
> to-peer with Windows I decided to write a small howto on this matter.
>
> NOTE: I am aware that there's a wiki-page as well as several other
> howto's around - but by looking at the constant "how do I setup samba"
> posts that are floating around in the forum I simply see the need for
> a more thourough guide on this matter.
>
> Feel free to contribute and suggest - it'll only help to make this
> howto a better guide.
>
> The goal of this howto is to have samba act like a Windows Workstation
> in the LAN. As a "value added bonus" we will use samba to do netbios
> name resolution so that you can use the names of the workstations for
> network drive mapping instead of their ip-addresses (i.e.:
> \MY_WINDOWS_BOX\SHARE) - but only for as long as your Linux box has an
> static ip-address and is up and running.
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