Help with regards to samba file sharing/networking

jennifer.ayag · 12-04-2008, 03:01 AM

Hello there!

Sorry if this thread is as similar as the one I've posted last month. I just to make my queries detailed.

We have 20 computer at the office.....10 are ubuntu hardy and 10 are windows xp. I want to be able to share respective files of the computers. I've installed samba at one of the computers for trial purpose.

I want to know if how can I configure samba to work with the network. As of the moment the ubuntu computers can see windows computers and can access/write on the winxp computerd but unfortunately the windows computers cannot connect to the ubuntu computers.

Can anyone please show me how to configure samba either in GUI or command line?

Thanks in advance.

rylan76 · 12-04-2008, 03:58 AM

There is a file in /etc/samba (or there should be) called smb.conf that you can change so that the Windows machines should be able to access the Linux machine's share.

Here's my smb.conf. It allows the specific windows machines listed in the

Code:

hosts allow = 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.3 10.0.0.4 10.0.0.5 10.0.0.6 10.0.0.7 10.0.0.8 10.0.0.9 10.0.0.10 10.0.0.11 10.0.0.11

line to access itself. Take a peek and change relevant options in yours - it should be more or less obvious:

Code:

[global]

netbios name = development
workgroup = WORKGROUP
security = share
log file = /var/log/samba.log 
log level =  1
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=16384 SO_SNDBUF=16384 
wins support = yes 
domain logons = no
logon drive = f: 
logon home = \\stefan\%U
os level = 99 
preferred master = yes
local master = yes
hosts allow = 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.3 10.0.0.4 10.0.0.5 10.0.0.6 10.0.0.7 10.0.0.8 10.0.0.9 10.0.0.10 10.0.0.11 10.0.0.11
encrypt passwords = yes
browseable = yes
lanman auth = yes 
lm announce = yes 

[shared]
path = /mnt/win/shared
guest ok = yes 
writeable = yes 
create mode = 0666 
directory mode = 0777
browseable = yes
public = yes

Of course, you'll also need to change

Code:

path = /mnt/win/shared

to whichever folder you want available on the XP machines, from that Linux machine.

Once this is done, copy the /etc/samba/smb.conf file to /var/local/samba/lib

Then restart samba

Do as root:

Code:

# killall smbd
# killall nmbd
# smbd -D
# nmbd -D

WARNING: This is probably not secure - the above file allows any XP machine on my LAN which has one of the listed IP addresses to connect to it, and to read and write (and delete) files in my /mnt/win/shared folder. No passwords are required, so it might be risky, depending on your environment.

Hope this helps...