(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

It wasn't quite clear from your post - you may know already but - you can connect already to XP machines and take files off windows machines etc without having samba server installed. You need to create shares on the windows machine then connect from puppy using pnethood. samba client is already on puppy

You only need samba if you wish to create windows "shares" on puppy - i.e. get files back off puppy onto the XP machines etc. or copy from the XP machines to puppy.

Personally I never found GTKSamba particularly helpful, so I really don't see the point in packaging it and gtk1.2 up with a samba server package.

ecomoney wrote:What would be great is a generic, low security, smb.conf where I could simply enter in the path of the folder I wanted to share, and what it would be advertised as over the network when detected with pnethood.

If you really want low security, just grab my whole smb.conf from my howto thread, put in the workgroup and netbiosname you want, and the name and path of the shares, and it should work fine.
It would be trivial to write a wizard to build a simple smb.conf like that if you really felt like it.