[CentOS] Samba GUI interface

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008, Craig White wrote:
>
>On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 14:18 -0500, Dean Maluski wrote:
>> CentOS 5.1
>> I was just trying to add users and shares to Samba from GUI interface.
>> I've already added users from command line.
>> Regardless, when I go to select users the existing users is blank.
>> When I add a user if it already exists I get a complaint that user
>> exists. If I add a new user from GUI it does not get added to the blank
>> list.
>> OK I just added a user from gui, applied it [HIT OK]
>> went back and tried to add user again but when hitting [OK] complained
>> that user exists. Seems things are working except listing existing users
>> in interface.
>> I can live with this but I'm about to upgrade a server at work and
>> ultimately I was hoping my Windows Sys Admin could manage to
>> administrate Samba. I don't think this will be possible without a GUI.
>----
>personally, I've found webmin to be useful (not part of standard
>packaging but is in dag repository) http://www.webmin.com
>
>Webmin can be configured to add posix/samba users at same time and/or
>convert posix users to samba users

I prefer using swat on port 901 for most samba configuration,
largely because it has excellent on-line help to explain the
multitude of options available.

Bill
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