Linux package Installation and Configuration Help!

[FlametongueX]

Hello. i have these set of questions that i need to do and so if possible can somehelp me on it or tell me a website that gives me the information about this:

You are to investigate how to set up SAMBA on a Debian Linux system to allow files to be shared with a Windows XP system.

Practice how to set up the system for a named user and allow both access to a file on the Debian system and transfer of a file from the Debian system to the Windows system.

You can assume a basic Debian system will be available and that SAMBA will be available as a deb package on our server systems or given out on suitable media if the server fails for any reason.

The problem is i have never heard of this before so i am stuck! If someone could tell me how to go about doing this i could then practice on the uni comps but i have no clue where to begin becasue i mainly use xp!

Thanks

[AndrewB]

to get samba

as root

apt-get install samba

to learn
http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/...TO-Collection/

[FlametongueX]

wot do u mean by getting it to root!

[mindblast]

He mean you to login as root. You have to go into a console and type:

su root
<your root password>

[FlametongueX]

ahhhh ok thanks alot now the hard bit. gotta try it out hmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheBigPhish]

t_g_d_i_b gets partial credit for your homework too!

[FlametongueX]

I wouldn't consider this homework its just more of a pratically test we gotta do but i have never used linux, let alone heard of debian??????? but guess gotta start somewhere eh?