Connecting to windows network

I'm about to try to download Samba, but i have no clue how to get it started (I know I should probably try it before i ask questions, but hey, if theres anything I can break, tell me.)
First of all, is it available on pacman?
As a sidenote, how do you get "uninstall" packages?

If you need to access a linux samba share from a windows computer, you need to create a samba user with the same username and password as on the windows machine. And for that you also need a linux user with the same username. This user must have permission to read and/or write the directories on the linux machine that are to be shared.
The linux users password is not important if the user will only have access via the network to the shares, and should then be set to something really secure. (well, all passwords should be secure, but if noone needs to login, you can even make it one that is hard to remember)
After the linux user has been setup, use
smbpasswd -a <username>
to add the samba user. And supply the password (equal to the windows password) when asked for it.
That should be it. Then you should be able to access the samba shares from the windows machine.
Let me know if I've misunderstood what you are trying to do, and I'll see what else we can work out.
EDIT: You must run the above command as root, else you won't have access to the smbuser database.
Last edited by madeye (2007-07-10 17:07:18)

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