Samba Server

  Samba Server

Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and UNIX.

Samba sets up network shares of Linux and UNIX directories .These directories will appear to windows users as normal folders accessible via network

UNIX users can mount the shares directly as part of their file structure

Service profile

Package: samba

Service:smb

Deamons:nmbd ,smbd

Configuration file:/etc/samba/smb.conf

Script file:/etc/init.d/samba

Port no: 137 NetBios Name service

            138 NetBios Datagram Service

            139 NetBios Session Service

Objective:To share the files among the cross platform

Install the Packages

[root@smb~]#Yum install samba* -y

Create the resources on Samba server i.e, files/folders and users

[root@smb~]#useradd raju

[root@smb~]#useradd koti

[root@smb~]#passwd ****

[root@smb~]#passwd ****

Create shared folder /var/raju with full permission and some files inside

[root@smb~]#mkdir /var/raj

[root@smb~]#chmod 777 /var/raj

[root@smb~]#cd /var/raj

[root@smb~]#touch file[1..10]    #creates files i.e, file1 to file10

Edit the main configuration

[root@smb~]#vi /etc/samba/smb.conf

#go to end of the file copy last 8 lines 8yy and press p to paste

 [redhat]   #shared name

 comment=this is for redhat

 path=/var/raj

valid users= raju koti

public=no

writable=yes

printable=yes

host allow=192.168.0.0/24

:wq!

Check the syntax of the configuration file

[root@smb~]#testparam

Provide a separate samba password for the samba users to getsamba shares

[root@smb~]#smbpasswd –a raju

[root@smb~]#smbpasswd –a koti

[root@smb~]#chkconfig smb on

[root@smb~]#service smb restart

Client configuration

In linux

[root@smbclient~]#smbclient //192.168.0.1/redhat –U raj

Password:

Smb:\>ls

Smb:\>get <name of the file to download>

Smb:\>put <name of the file to upload>

Smb:\>exit

In windows

Start-> Run->\\ip\shared name

Provide samba username and password