[CentOS] Samba GUI interface

Craig White craig at tobyhouse.com
Wed Feb 6 19:28:42 UTC 2008


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.
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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

Craig




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