samba

killi · 06-02-2003, 10:58 AM

some simple samba questions:

1> can anyone post a simple samba file with sharing home directory
i have a book about this and i have an configuration file
but i want to see another one so that i can copy what i need

2> does samba start automaticly at startup?? (i use slackware)

cheers

erling

trickykid · 06-02-2003, 11:35 AM

Just add something like this in your share portion of the configuration file:

Code:

[public]
   comment = Public Directory
   path = /path/to/shared/directory
   valid users = user1 user2
   public = yes
   writable = yes
   printable = no
   create mask = 0765

And depending on if you have guest accounts setup you can modify accordingly as to not have valid users.. with something like this:

Code:

[public2]
   path = /path/to/shared/directory
   public = yes
   only guest = yes
   writable = yes
   printable = no

And no, in Slackware usually Samba will not start automatically. The easiest way is to just uncomment the appropiate entires in your /etc/inetd.conf file that will look like this:

Code:

# These are to start Samba, an smb server that can export filesystems to
# Pathworks, Lanmanager for DOS, Windows for Workgroups, Windows95, Lanmanager
# for Windows, Lanmanager for OS/2, Windows NT, etc.
# If you're running smbd and nmbd as daemons in /etc/rc.d/rc.samba, then you
# shouldn't uncomment these lines.
netbios-ssn    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/smbd  smbd
netbios-ns     dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/sbin/nmbd  nmbd

Or you can just add a script to whatever runlevel you startup to in /etc/rc.d to start these processes and daemons.

killi · 06-02-2003, 11:40 AM

ok thx

killi · 06-02-2003, 11:43 AM

what about the global thing here is my smb.conf file

Code:

[global] 
workgroup = Workgroup
guest account = guest
map to guest = Bad Password
smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
null passwords = Yes
hosts allow = 192.168.2.1 127.0.0.1
interfaces = 10.0.0.1/40 , 192.168.2.0/40
comment = %h Running - Slackware linux 9.0 + samba %v

is there any tjing that i should change

killi · 06-02-2003, 11:48 AM

and how do i share

trickykid · 06-02-2003, 12:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by killi
and how do i share

What do you mean? That's what your doing by adding those shares I mentioned before, you should see them in your Network Neighborhood after starting samba.. etc.

And your Global section seems ok.. and remember if your not setting up a guest account so anyone can access the shares you need to create users by using the smbpasswd command, example:

smbpasswd -a user1

killi · 06-02-2003, 01:35 PM

Code:

root@Iluvatar:/home/erling#smbpasswd -a user1
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
User user1 does not exist in system password file (usually /etc/passwd). Cannot add account without a valid local system user.
Failed to modify password entry for user user1

what does this say???
should i add user1 in /etc/passwd

trickykid · 06-02-2003, 01:37 PM

yeah, if your specifying the passwd file in your smb.conf as /etc/passwd, when setting the passwords, the users have to be existing users..

killi · 06-02-2003, 01:39 PM

ok but what to do with guest is that made by itself