[olug] new to Samba

[thelarsons3 at cox.net]

> From: Brian Wiese <bwiese at cotse.com>
> <thelarsons3 at cox.net> wrote:
> |2.0.9.  I can almost hear the response now:  get the latest version!  :)
> 
> uhhh... yeah!  =) 
> lol, where the heck did you dig up that old thing? omg! thats got to be
> SOO insecure, especially with the remote root exploits out last spring. 
> No point in really troubleshooting such an old version of samba, def need
> to get a newer version. 

I inherited a Cobalt at work that I've pressed back into service, and that's what was installed.  I'm still feeling my way around it.  Spent a bit of time over the last day or so compiling from source, testing the new version (2.2.8) from my ~/bin.  (Still no dice, BTW.  I can connect, but don't see anything.  I think it's got to be some permission on the Windows side, but I don't know what it would be.)  Cobalt, in its wisdom, put configuration files in odd locations, but some symlinks are moving me past those errors.  Wondering "what's going to break if I do this?" is making me a little wary of upgrading.  :P  Why couldn't it have been a standard (if old) RedHat box instead?

> and I've never really used the sbmclient command as an interpreter, I
> always just used it to list shares avail, then mount the share to my local
> filesystem to do anything with it. hth.

I just want to suck my web logs off a Windows box to generate some stats.  I thought this would be the easier (for me) route, but now I'm not so sure.

Tim

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Tim & Alethea