Linux SAMBA to Share Network HDD with Permissions to Clients

ensgr · 01-12-2011, 09:10 AM

Hello there!

I am very new to the Linux world, I will try to be specific..

In my work I want to build up a Linux based network, where windows and linux clients are going to share a Thecus network drive.
Each client will have specific permissions for accessing the samba shares.

Is this possible? I have installed Ubuntu SRV 10.4 with gui and webmin. What is the best practice for this?

Thanks a lot for your help

theNbomr · 01-13-2011, 09:38 AM

Assuming that the network drive shares its data using CIFS/SMB shares, then it should be trivial to mount its shares from any Linux that has cifs drivers. Best practice may depend on the circumstance. If the shares should always be mounted at boot time, then you could put an entry in /etc/fstab, something like:

Code:

//thecushostname/sharename /linux/mount/point cifs uid=linuxuser,gid=linuxgroup,user=thecususer,rw,directio,credentials=/etc/samba/smb.creds 0 0

If the share does not require password authentication, leave out the 'credentials=....' clause. If it does, make the specified file readable only by the respective Linux user, and put the following in it:

Code:

user=IdOfTheThecusUser
password=ThecusUsersPassword

Without the credentials file, the user will have to enter a password, unprompted, during the boot process.

Otherwise, you can simply use the mount command at any time to mount arbitrary CIFS shares to arbitrary mountpoints.

--- rod.