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I am trying to play around with my own home setting lab with windows 2008 r2 college edition with centos free edition. I want to play around with backing up my linux files to windows 2008 r2 standard. What is the easiest and best way to do so? thanks in advance.
Most distros have a GUI interface for configuring samba; So to simply answer your question, you can use the GUI configuration to create a "simple" share. It should be located within your settings menu.
Most distros have a GUI interface for configuring samba; So to simply answer your question, you can use the GUI configuration to create a "simple" share. It should be located within your settings menu.
Cheers,
Josh
I apologize Josh. I want to use command line to do this since I am trying to learn and get some practice with it instead of using the gui. Thanks again.
Ahh ok, that's cool
Check out the following link - http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/add-sam...in-linux-unix/
There are many tutorials and loads of information online, but that link is one of the "simplest" that are out there. Overall, setting up individual shares is quite easy. Let me know if you need any other help!
Ahh ok, that's cool
Check out the following link - http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/add-sam...in-linux-unix/
There are many tutorials and loads of information online, but that link is one of the "simplest" that are out there. Overall, setting up individual shares is quite easy. Let me know if you need any other help!
Cheers,
Josh
thanks I see:
[incoming]
comment = Icomming data
writable = yes
path = /home/incoming
Save close the file. Restart Samba :
# /etc/init.d/samba restart
If you are using Redhat/CentOS/Fedora core type:
# service smb restart
where do I allow certain ips to access the share? and what should the windows side be apply or how to access the linux side of the share? I guess what I am trying to say is how will windows side access or hitting that share? thanks.
Disabling firewall is not a good option. It totally depends on how your firewall(s) is(are) configured. You might need to add an exception to the firewall. You can achieve this by using iptables package in linux and as far as windows is concerned, it depends on which firewall you are using in windows.
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