[CentOS] Samba GUI interface

[Anne Wilson]

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
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