[ Thanks to Ken Guest
for this link. ]
“The next thing to do was to get samba installed and working, in
hindsight this wasn’t all that difficult to do, though I must admit
that I made a few silly mistakes initially – reading the
documentation (/usr/doc/packages/samba) helped. To summarise though
(if, like me, you couldn’t be bothered to read documentation most
of the time) this is what you need to check…”
“There are a few other things that you can do with samba –
one of them is to send a message to all samba clients. This can be
very handy if you want to let them know that you have to restart
Samba.“
“If they are using Windows to connect to your shares then they
must be running ‘winpopup.exe’ to recieve these messages. You can
configure Samba to be the logon domain and use a log on script to
start winpopup.exe automatically, however this is overkill for a
simple home network. It’s simpler to just have a shortcut to
winpopup in the Startup group.”