Setting Up Samba

Objective: create a rather simplistic samba share for a small office or home network.

I started from these articles:

• http://www.howtoforge.com/samba-fileserver-with-swat-fedora8
• http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/sambaserver.shtml

1. You do not need swat, it is rather awkward and confusing, imho.

   sudo yum install samba
   

2. With Administration -> Users and Groups, check that your user belongs to “users” group.

   sudo mkdir -p /home/shares/allusers
   

3. Open ports on firewall: 137,138,139,445 (I use guarddog for that)
4. Edit smb.conf:

   sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
   

   Paste the following there:

    

   [global]
   workgroup = LOCALNET
   realm = LOCALNET
   netbios name = LOCALNET
   netbios aliases = LOCALNET
   server string = LOCALNET Samba Server
   username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
   smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
   log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
   max log size = 50
   use spnego = No
   socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
   printcap name = /etc/printcap
   dns proxy = No
   ldap ssl = no
   idmap uid = 16777216-33554431
   idmap gid = 16777216-33554431
   
   [printers]
   comment = All Printers
   path = /var/spool/samba
   printable = Yes
   browseable = No
   
   [localshare]
   comment = Home Directories for All Users
   path = /home/shares/allusers/
   username = @users
   force group = users
   read only = No
   create mask = 0660
   security mask = 0660
   directory mask = 0771
   directory security mask = 0771

    

5. Edit smbusers:

    sudo gedit /etc/samba/smbusers

   Paste the following there:

   # Unix_name = SMB_name1 SMB_name2 ...
   root = administrator admin
   someuseruser1 = someuseruser1
   

6. Start server:

    sudo smbpasswd -a root sudo smbpasswd -a someuseruser1 sudo /sbin/chkconfig smb on sudo /sbin/chkconfig nmb on

7. In konqueror or krusader (or whatever):

   smb://someuseruser1@localnet/localshare
   

On Windows Mobile 6 device (ASUS P535, with WiFi) works in Total Commander CE and VM Net Browser at address \localnetlocalshare (will ask for username and password).

Confirmed with Acer Aspire 6930 under Fedora 9 and 10

Additionally need:

sudo /sbin/service smb start
sudo /sbin/service nmb start
sudo chown -R root.users /PATH/TO/LOCALSHARE
sudo chmod 0775 -R /PATH/TO/LOCALSHARE