DSL fileserver on a Windows Network

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: DSL fileserver on a Windows Network
started by: Your Fuzzy God

Posted by Your Fuzzy God on July 21 2005,22:09

< The Tutorial >

This tutorial will show you how to:

Edit files as a super user
View Damn Small computers in a Window$ world
Share files and directories over a network

This tutorial originally started as a series of notes for myself; but I decided to go ahead and make a full-fledged tutorial once I saw that many people were trying to do this. This tutorial was designed for harddrive installs, but can be used for live-cd machines as well. Since I am both a Linux noob and reformed Window$ user, hopefully, I was clear enough that anyone can turn DSL into a file server.
If there are any questions, concerns, mistakes, etc., please let me know by responding to this post. I look forward to hearing everyone’s comments.

-Cody
< Mainframe Computers >

Posted by cbagger01 on July 22 2005,03:14

Nice job.

Your howto was well written and informative. It also includes images that help to make your points.

The only addition that I would make is to mention that for livecd and pendrive users, they will need to set the root password in order to use the su function like that.

Open an terminal window and type:

sudo passwd

and type in the new root password (and remember it too).

I also recommend that you consider donating your howto to the DSL documentation howto collection (if you want to).

Your work would be an excellent addition to the steadily improving documentation for the distro.

It is also good that your perspective is still from the new linux user's perspective because it is hard for the more experienced users to write documents that use this point of view.

Thanks again.

Posted by Your Fuzzy God on July 22 2005,15:28

I would be more than happy to donate this tutorial. If you need the original text document or for me to do anything, let me know. Also, I will try to add your suggestion later today.

****EDIT****

I lied...Instead of adding a few notes to the howto, I am actually going ot make a howto for frugal installs. The application between frugal and normal installs is virtually the same; however, I would like to change the procedures on how to edit, and in which order to edit the files. This way I can exploit some of the advantages of a frugal install without confusing the reader.

*****/EDIT*****

-Cody
< Mainframe Computers >

Posted by cbagger01 on July 23 2005,03:09

SaidinUnleashed is the keeper of the DSL documentation.

Try sending him a forum private message.