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rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 02 Oct 2010, 14:11 Post subject:

@jrb: Can you confirm that samba-tng will work with Vista and/or Win7 clients?

jrb · Posted: Sat 02 Oct 2010, 16:09 Post subject:

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 02 Oct 2010, 17:35 Post subject:

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 5087 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

Thanks jrb; This goes along with my thought of having "special purpose" puppies.

1) Server ( done )
2) Media player ( jukebox, movie machine )
3) Browser ( keosk, library, internet cafe, etc. )

I`m sure there`s others...

JackWagon · Joined: 17 Aug 2010 Posts: 51 Location: dead center, USA

rcrsn51 · Posted: Mon 04 Oct 2010, 23:02 Post subject:

The beauty of the Puppy live CD and frugal install is that you can try various combinations until you find one that fits your needs.

For example, take a machine that has wifi capability, find a Puppy with the right driver and install samba-tng-rcrsn. In a few minutes, you've got a wireless file/print server on your network!

paule · Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 79

Thanks for this, it looks really promising. I am currently using your distro on one of the computers in my network, and can access it from other computers using puppy, but so far am unable to get my Fedora 11 box to be able to connect. When I try to connect to the pupserver as a Windows network, I get asked for a domain name and password, and so far I don't seem to be able to get the right combination. Where in pupserver can I specify the domain name etc?

Thanks in advance.

cheers, Paul

jrb · Posted: Wed 06 Oct 2010, 19:20 Post subject:

paule · Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 79

Thanks for this. I was looking in the wrong directory. I was looking in /etc/samba rather than /etc/opt/samba

I haven't figured out how to get the Fedora and Puppy boxes to talk to each other yet, but this will help.

Thanks again.

cheers, Paul

jamalexa · Posted: Sat 06 Nov 2010, 23:41 Post subject: Automount USB HDD

How do I set my usb 500gb hdd to automount when I start my server?

jamalexa · Posted: Sat 06 Nov 2010, 23:53 Post subject:

Nevermind. I did a search and came across this topic: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=61262. I copies the file set the permissions to run as a program and placed it in /root/Startup. Restarted the server and bam it works. I love Puppy and the forums.

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth

Just saw this today. Its a very, very good piece of work for the Puppy community. I don't know how I missed this.

You have the first built-in full function LAN machine via an ISO that can run as a LiveCD.

Congratulation.

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth

jrb · Posted: Sun 14 Nov 2010, 23:38 Post subject:

cprivers · Joined: 26 Nov 2010 Posts: 63

I know I must be missing something simple, but after downloading & installing the samba-tng pet in this thread I can't figure out how to start Samba! In Puppy 5 I used /"etc/rc.d/rc.samba start" and in Ubuntu I use "/etc/init.d/samba start", but these files don't exist on my Puppy 431 setup. What is the command to start the server?