share files with SuSE 9.0 and Windows XP
I am a newbie, please bear with me.
Is this a secure way to share files with SuSE 9.0 and Windowz XP? A. click YaST to open click Network Services click Samba Server click Enable Samba Server select File and printer sharing type XP workgroup name select Share Homes click Advanced to add more directories ...click Edit and Add Mask for each shared directory, type 0777 ...I had to change the Mask twice to get it to save click Finish B. Bring up Terminal or Command prompt in SuSE type su to become secure root user type root password type smbadduser nameofusertoadd ...I used the default admin user that I created type/create a password for the new smb user C. Map the network drive to Windowz XP and login If anyone has a better more secure method, please post detailed instructions here. I would like to be able to force Samba to accept connections only from certain IP addresses on my internal home network if possible, but as I said, I am a newbie. |
add to your smb.conf file in the global section:
allow hosts = 192.168.1. or whatever your home subnet is, leave the last number off that will allow any number to connect |
Thanks for the info Finlay, I may need to try that.
I also edited my post above to include the Mask comment. I may need to work on getting SWAT to work, if it is available. |
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