Re: [opensuse] How to get samba working?

On Friday 25 September 2009 12:06:50 pm Bob Williams wrote:

Can anyone suggest what I need to do to get samba running? Once I've got
that far, I'm happy to play around with /etc/samba/smb.conf

Thanks,

Bob



Sure Bob,

It's simple. Here is an outline with a few tricks:

1) add each user that will access the samba shares to smbpasswd:

smbpasswd -a username

(tip: use the same password as the windows password for the user and the login
is usually automatic)

2) set up a directory you will share on the server. I use:

/home/samba

(make sure the permissions allow the user to read! For directories that is a
minimum of r+x or 5 as in 0755) I usually set the directories I want to have
under /home/samba and give /home/samba 0755 permission to prevent users from
writing in the samba directory itself, then make all subdirectories 0775 so
users have write permission and can add subdirectories, etc..) If you are
using groups to allow access, you can tighten permission on the subdirectories
to 0770.

3) Install a simple /etc/samba/smb.conf, Just copy and paste the following,
change as necessary. (You can comment out the print-pdf share if you don't
want to use it)

Make sure you change the workgroup name to match your windows workgroup and
change the wins server IP to your linux box IP (the server). Also, obviously,
change the user and group names :-)

[global]
workgroup = rb_law
server string = Samba %v
disable spoolss = yes
printcap name = cups
cups options = raw
map to guest = Bad User
include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
usershare allow guests = No
security = user
admin users = david
smb ports = 139
hosts allow = 192.168.5. 127. ; Specify your subnets and localhost.
domain logons = yes
wins server = 192.168.6.17
restrict anonymous = no
passwd chat debug = yes
domain master = no
logon home = %5C%5C%25N%5C%25U
smb passwd file = file:
pid directory = file:
logon path = %5C%5C%25N%5C%25U%5Cprofile
lock directory = file:
private dir = file:

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = No
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes

[samba]
comment = Your Shared Files.
path = /home/samba
valid users = @chooseyourgroup, andanyusernames
force user = david
force group = skyline
admin users = david ; Make yourself an admin user
browseable = Yes
writeable = Yes
inherit permissions = yes

;
; use with caution. This gives you root access from windows. I limit this to
myself.
;
[config]
comment = Alchemy Config
path = /home/samba
valid users = david
force user = root
force group = root
browseable = no
read only = no

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes
create mask = 0600
browseable = No

;
; This is a trick to create a print-to-pdf function on your server that uses
; ps2pdf. On windows just browse to your server and install the printer.
; When prompted for a driver, choose a color postscript driver. The
; HP Color LaserJet 8500 PS driver works great. The Apple driver work great
too.
;
; Put the print-pdf script in /usr/share/samba/scripts/
;
[pdf-gen]
path = /var/tmp
guest ok = No
printable = Yes
comment = PDF Generator print-pdf
printing = bsd
printcap name = cups
print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf "%s" "%H/pdf" "//%L/%u"
"%m" "%I" "%J" &
lpq command = /bin/true

4) Start/restart the samba nmbd and smbd daemons:

# rcnmb restart
# rcsmb restart

Then configure them to start at boot:

# chkconfig nmb on
# chkconfig smb on

5) Either browse with windows explorer to map the shares or from the command
prompt in windows do:

net use f: \\servername\samba

6) That's it, post back if you get stuck. Get the print-pdf script at:

http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/scripts/print-pdf

I probably have more notes for samba here:

http://www.3111skyline.com/linux/openSuSE-server.php#samba

Good luck!

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