How do I go about setting a samba server on Linux?

natalinasmpf · 02-22-2004, 12:07 PM

I know you can access windows drives using samba over a network, but what about windows to linux (or linux to linux over a network drive)? How do I make a Linux filesystem a share (using windows filesystems of course unless using others are possible)?

Also I don't seem to get the idea of UID's for fstab for samba and such.

Mathieu · 02-22-2004, 01:00 PM

If you want to learn how to configure Samba in order to create shares on Linux.
You should consider taking a look at Using Samba, 2nd Edition from O'Reilly & Associates. This book is available for free.
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/

To connect to a windows share from Linux, you can use the smbclient command.
Syntax:

Code:

smbclient //computer_name/share -U username

The UID is a unique number associated to a user. You can get a list for all UID and GID (group) on your Linux system from the /etc/passwd file.

Code:

more /etc/passwd

The third column is the UID and the fourth column is the GID.

For example, if you want to mount a windows share, you would use the following syntax.

Code:

mount -t smbfs -o uid=500,gid=100,username=natalinasmpf //computer/test /mnt/test