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Samba

How to set up samba on Linux.

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Installation

On Xubuntu Dapper Drake, Samba can be installed by typing

apt-get install samba

The software is stored on the CD.

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/etc/samba/smb.conf

Supposing you wanted to set up a shared folder called projects . Your smb.conf entry might contain the following fragment

workgroup = CAPCIS # or whatever workgroup you decide on

[projects]
       comment = Projects
       path = /home/shared/projects
       writeable = yes
       valid users = @users
       create mask = 2660
       directory mask = 2770

This will give users access to this directory, and they'll be able to read and write to it.

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User accounts

You will probably need to create a samba account for a user:
smbpasswd -a username
You will be prompted for a password

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Start/stop/restarting samba

On Xubuntu Dapper Drake, to restart samba you would type, as root:

/etc/init.d/samba restart

Starting and stopping is achieved by replacing the word restart with either start or stop .

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Mounting directories

If you want to mount directories on your Linux drive that belong on remoter machines, (to use smbclient ,  smbmount etc.), you will also need to install package smbfs . A typcial way of doing it might be:

mkdir /mnt/projects
chmod a+w /mnt/projects
smbmount  //192.168.30.3/projects /mnt/projects -o username=NNN,password=NNN,workgroup=NNN,uid=NNN,guid=NNN

You can umount by typing

umount /mnt/aber1

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Author:  Mark Carter
Created: 06-Feb-2006
Updated: 06-Sep-2006