topic configuring samba in Operating System - Linux

configuring samba

Chandra Sekhar_5 — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:53:26 GMT

Hi
I am trying to map a windows directory onto HPUX server using SAMBA. Samba has been installed on the unix server.Can you please let me know how to configure the windows directory onto the unix server. I could nt able to get the right instructions so far..your help is highly appreciated.

Re: configuring samba

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:30:22 GMT

You need to create a directory where the windows share will be mounted:

mkdir /mnt/windows_share

Use the smbmount command to mount the windows share:

smbmount //netbios_name/share_name /mnt/windows_share -o username=user-name password=user-password

If you don't need a password, use

smbmount //netbios_name/share_name /mnt/windows_share -o guest

See man smbmount.

Re: configuring samba

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:31:18 GMT

Your question is vague and in the Linux section.

Some general information:

Windows has a samba client built in. Windows networking is based on CIFS, which is what Samba is based on.

Basically, there is on Unix a single important configuration file. Its called smb.conf and it is pretty well documented with lots of comments.

You make changes based on your authentication environment and restart samba.

/sbin/init.d/samba stop
/sbin/init.d/samba start

The most simple authentication involves having a user ID on unix that is the same as windows. The windows user searches through network neighborhood by ip address or server name and clicks in.

Then the user is challented for a user name and password.

User rights on Unix are based on unix permissions.

Its possible to integrate authentication into LDAP or ADS, this is more comoplex and is beyond the scope of this message.

SEP