Wow! I was surprised to see an article on Samba in a Windows NT magazine. I really shouldn’t be though. Seeing articles about how to use non-Microsoft systems with the likes of NT is really nice.
Your article mentioned that you used the following command:



tar xvfg samba-1.9.16p9.tar.gz



to uncompress the tar ball. Are you sure you didn’t mean tar zxvf or xvfz? Your article was the first time I’ve seen the -g switch to untar something, and I tried that command on another file on this system and it wouldn’t work. Good article, and keep up the good work.

--Clifton Hairston




The xvfg switch is what I used on my version of Linux. This switch could be different on your system, depending on what version tar you’re using.

--Mark Joseph Edwards

Clifton Hairston 8/12/1999 3:51:06 PM

So I got my March magazine on a lazy afternoon, started flipping through it; read Mark Joseph Edwards’ article, “Samba”; and thought it just looked too easy. I had an hour to kill, so I followed your directions and had Samba running on my Sun in no time. I opened Network Neighborhood on my NT Server, and there Samba was! Wow. Of course, I look like a hero around here, and I’ll take the credit ;), but I wanted to thank you for such an entirely useful article.

--Lisa Henry

Lisa Henry 8/12/1999 3:50:33 PM