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OCTOBER 07, 2002 Networking Windows with Mac OS X, Part 2
Step 4: Launch the System Preferences panel I assume you know where this can be found. Once the panel is open, you'll see a handy Samba Sharing icon sitting there amongst all the other System Preferences (fig. 2). Go ahead, click on it. You'll see four tabs: Global, Connections, Configurations, and Extras (fig. 3). Basically, these panels control and monitor the status of the server, who's connected to your machine, what configuration or profile you're running, etc. This stuff is all pretty straightforward, so we'll move on and set up some shares so others on your network can see the parts of your system drive(s) you want them to. [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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Figure 3 Step 5: Make your configuration Here's where the actual Samba Sharing Package application comes in. Click on the configurations tab, and then click New to create a new configuration. It'll ask you what you want to name your configuration--I named mine "Home"--then automatically launch the Samba Sharing Package program. DISCLAIMER: Look, I'm not an IT professional. I'm just a guy with a Windows machine I needed to make talk to my Mac. I've got a two-machine setup, so security is of minimal concern, since I'm only sharing stuff with myself. The steps I'm going to walk you through are for my particular setup, and I can't speak to the relative security or insecurity of what I'm doing. So remember that IT staff you fired after reading part 1 of this tutorial? Hire 'em back to help you through setting up the particulars of your shares to work within the rules of your specific environment. With that out of the way, let's go through the tabs in the Samba Sharing Package to get things workin'. The SSP opens by default on the Server tab (fig. 4). The Servername is what your machine will be known as on the Windows network; for me, I entered Snake. The Comment field can be left blank if you want, but you can certainly choose to enter something descriptive here to further identify your machine on the Windows network. The Workgroup field is where you enter either the Workgroup you're on (in my case, Springfield), or the NT/2000 Domain you're a part of. I left the WINS Server field blank, since I don't have a WINS server, but some networks do. Again, get this from your IT staff you had to sheepishly hire back. 
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