Networking :: Using Samba

Quote (dtf @ April 29 2006,18:43)

Also I was stuck on the password bussiness for a while. In my case the key was setting the encryption to yes like in the examble I posted earlier. Also you need to set up the user and password with smbpasswd.

At this point, we seem to have turned this thread into a tutorial discussion on samba configuration, using the smb.conf file. I went searching on the internet for more information, and came across the following Samba How-to, which seems to have answered all of my questions... (though I have yet to try it all in DSL). I think each of us would be well served to read through this document. It seems to cover just about everything we are discussing here. The article I'm referring to is at the following web address:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub....TO.html

Thank you all for the help you have provided. It looks like the DSL version of Samba works pretty much the same as in my other Debian Distro.

Dick

Yes it does seem to be a how-to on getting DSL to communicate with Windows - but then there does seem to be a lot of queries on the forum on this topic.

My set-up does work now in that the DSL drive is fully accessible from all Windows machines on the network, though to be honest I'm not sure now what change did the trick in the end. Like dtf I use a hardware firewall, so am not too bothered about users and passwords. I would not recommend this on an open system.

For what it's worth, my smb.conf file looks like this;

[DSL_Share]
path = /mnt/hda1
guest ok = yes
read only = no
public = yes
writable = yes

[global]
security = share
workgroup = <myworkgroup>

That's it, very simple! Also make sure the permissions are set to writable in the file manager.

Hope that's usefull to somebody and thanks for the help.

R

linux4all - thanks for the link. When I get some time I look forward to going through it.

rjmusto - happy to hear you got it working. I have convince myself that changes you make in the smb.conf file are not instancely propagated through the network. I know this is true of other network protocols but not sure about samba. My point being that when you say that you are not sure of what did the trick, it could be that you didn't see the change in the network instancely but it did show up eventually.

Setting this up can be frustrating at times but for me DSL+samba running on a mini-itx platform provides a nice file/print server that is quite and comsumes minimal power.

Quote (rjmusto @ April 29 2006,14:07)

Thanks for that.

VI works fine.

Having modified the conf file I assume it is necessary to restart smb in order to pick up the changes. How do I do that?

I've seen other LINUX posts using the 'service' command to restart smb, but that does not seem to be implemented in DSL.

Just for your info, If you want to use another editor other than VI to edit the smb.conf file, just copy the file to your home directory, then edit that file, and when you are done, go to an administrator console and copy it back over the old copy.

Dick.

original here.