[CentOS] Samba GUI interface

Thu Feb 7 11:13:58 UTC 2008
Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>

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?

Anne