Re: Win98 and Samba

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 25, 11:55pm, Steve Poling wrote:
> Subject: Re: Win98  and Samba
> i'm using Samba no sweat. i'm running the redhat 5.2 release of kernel
> 2.0.36 and i installed/configured the 2.0 release of Samba. i tried the
> registry hack that says not to encrypt passwords. it didn't work, so i
> implemented a smbpasswd scheme that works just dandy. only problem is that
> my kids didn't like the passwords i assigned to them. (this is a home
> network, the only users are family members.)
>
> now, maybe if i started really beating on Samba, it'd get unfriendly. i'm
> inclined to try installing apps like Office97 on a Samba share and serving
> the apps up from there. does anybody know how to do something like that? my
> RELee machinne currently serves two printers and a 10gb drive to the Windoze
> machines, i'd be way cool to have it serve up a number of apps out of that
> 10gb space.
>

I've used the registery hack and it worked great,  you can also get Samba to
accept password changes from a Win95 machine and change the UNIX password as
well.  I've installed several apps to run of a Samba server running on an IBM
RS/6000.  So long as the application has a "network install" option you can do
it without any problem.  I've installed Office, Visio, and Lotus 1-2-3 (r5 and
millenium) on a server. There should be a .txt or .wri on the CD somewhere that
explains how to do a network install.  TO run something like 1-2-3 over a
network you really need a SERIOUSLY FAST network.  They have paid little
attention as to what files to put on the server and what ones to copy to the
client in a "node install",  and running over a network can kill performance.
 This seems to concern more recent versions of the above apps, and earlier
versions of each ran much faster.