Adding Linux [and Windows] to the network

[deadly7]

Well, I don't know how to do this for Windows either.. so any help with that would be appreciated too.
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How do I get it so that my computer running Slackware 10.2 with whatever kernel it came with on the CD is part of my network and I can simply transfer files over at the speed my router lets it?

[Eric]

Samba.

[deadly7]

So I basically just run Samba on Linux and I can access Windows?

[Sidoh]

So I basically just run Samba on Linux and I can access Windows?

Yes.  Make sure to put Samba on the same workgroup that your Windows Machines are running on.

[deadly7]

Uh.. Samba doesn't have a Slackware binary.  What do I download?

http://us5.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages

[Sidoh]

You download the source and compile it...

http://us5.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.22.tar.gz (I think)

[rabbit]

http://slackware.it/en/pb/search.php?v=10.2&t=1&q=samba

[deadly7]

Thanks rabbit..
But when I do install it (su root , login with password, #installpkg samba-3.0.20b-i486-1.tgz) it says that it's launching the install script but it never does it.  wtf?

[Joe]

wget http://us5.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.22.tar.gz
tar -xvvzf samba-3.0.22.tar.gz
cd samba-3.0.22
./configure
make
sudo make install

[rabbit]

$su
Password:
#wget http://us5.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.22.tar.gz
#tar -xvzf samba-3.0.22.tar.gz
#cd samba-3.0.22 && ./configure || make || make install

Consolidate the steps!

[Newby]

#cd samba-3.0.22 && ./configure || make || make install

Why the hell are you piping the results of configure and make? :P

# cd samsa-3.0.22; ./configure; make; make install; logout

Are you using csh or something? The only way I could see that working is if it did the step following the one before '||' if the one before '||' reported success, which sounds really neat in my mind.

[rabbit]

I do it in bash, and it works just fine.  If ./configure errors, make doesn't run, so make install doesn't run.

[Newby]

I didn't even know that worked. Hehe.

newby@impaler:~$ echo 1 || echo 2 || echo 3
1
newby@impaler:~$

[rabbit]

I dunno..works fine for me :\

[Joe]

You meant to use && instead of ||, I think.

joe@foobar:~ $ echo 1 && echo 2 && echo 3
1
2
3