[IGNORE] Pogo-noob questions re Samba, users

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---edit--- I marked this [IGNORE] because I've moved past these questions, and I don't want anyone to waste time trying to help me. I didn't delete the post on th off-chance that someone has read it and is thinking about replying, but if a mod wants to delete it or tell me to do so, fire away. ---/edit---

First post ... be gentle ... I'm definitely a noob - closest I've come to linux is using Unix over 20 years ago. I hope this is the right place to post - I considered the User Questions forum but figured the other people dealing with Pogoplugs would be the best ones to ask...

I have a pogoplug B01. Over the past few hours I've set it up with Arch & Samba, and I can now access (from Windows 7) the 4G flash drive that I used for the initial Arch install, plus the 2TB external drive. But I'm pretty sure I have things set up screwy ... the process of getting access to the drives led me to a bunch of different guides and forum posts, and frankly I was adding things to my smb.conf file without really knowing what they were.

Is there a general ULTRA-basic guide to configuring Samba? I'm going to paste in my smb.conf file to see if anyone has any obvious comments, but if you can just point me at a beginners guide/tutorial, that's great too.

What do I need to do in terms of creating users? And what's the relationship between Samba users and Linux users? My uneducated impression is that I want every Samba user to correspond to a Linux user, but then I may or may not have some extra Linux users (like root?) ... but I'm not remotely confident that that is correct.

My goal is mainly to use the Pogoplug as a home network server & media streamer, with lower priority goals of accessing it from the internet, installing a BT client on it, and using it as a web server, but those are down the road after I educate myself some more and get the thing working well as a server.


OK here's my smb.conf file ... I purposely set up access to the external drive as read only, just to be paranoid at first, but obviously I'll change that. Let me know if you see anything obviously bad or missing:

[EDIT: I messed up the copy/paste ... if you looked at it in the first few minutes, I've fixed it now]
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
[global]
guest account = smbguest
netbios name = NETPOGO
security = user
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY
workgroup = HUGESNET
force user = root

[public]
comment = Public Stuff
path = /home/public
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
guest ok = yes
guest only = yes
read only = no

[ELEMENTS2T]
comment = 2TB USB Drive
path = /media/Elements
public = yes
printable = no
guest ok = yes
guest only = yes
read only = yes
')