Any time I have to do something with Samba, I run into stupid configuration and permissions issues. I just set up a dead simple Samba config and am documenting it here for next time. Possibly someone else might get some use out of it too.
Some reading I based this on: creating a public share in Samba, and some Samba on Ubuntu docs.
Overview:
- Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic as the smb server
- Whatever Samba 3.x it comes with
- Windows and Linux client machines
- Anyone on 192.168.1.0/24 has access: not secure, but convenient
- Machine called myhostname is the file server, at IP 192.168.1.4
Config:
- On the file server, myhostname in this example, create a user smbuser to act as the 'guest' in Samba. Client machines that don't authenticate will act as this user:
sudo adduser smbuser
Then make sure /etc/passwd and /etc/group have lines something like this:# /etc/passwd smbuser:x:1001:1001:Samba user,,,:/home/smbuser:/usr/sbin/nologin # /etc/group smbuser:x:1001:
- Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf:
[global] netbios name = myhostname workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = File Server security = user map to guest = bad user guest account = smbuser create mask = 0644 directory mask = 0755 hosts allow = 192.168.1.0/24 hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0 unix extensions = no # unless you REALLY need them # Simple share that anyone can read/write to [photos] path = /data/photos browsable = yes guest ok = yes read only = no
- Client linux machine's /etc/fstab (Make sure smbfs is installed: sudo apt-get install smbfs):
//192.168.1.4/data /data cifs username=smbuser,password=,uid=bob,gid=bob 0 0
- Client Windows machine: just browse to \\192.168.1.4 or \\myhostname
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