On Thursday 07 February 2008 16:36:57 Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 11:13 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 06 February 2008 19:28, 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 have rpmforge enabled, but yum doesn't list webmin. Is this the wrong repo?
you may be right...they might have dropped it. It was clear that they weren't keeping up with the releases which is why I stopped using rpmforge's version anyway.
You can get tarball or rpm version directly from http://www.webmin.com
Note:
before you install webmin, install perl-Net-SSLeay yum install perl-Net-SSLeay
if the webmin installation detects that package is installed, connections are all done via SSL (heavily recommended)
that package is indeed in rpmforge
OK, Craig. I've done it that way before, so no big deal. Thanks for the hints too. I guess that explains why one time I had it installed without SSL.
Anne