CIFS/SAMBA

[Nobody's Hero]

I am a novice linux admin. Running redhat 8.
I am going to attempt to set up cifs. Can someone point me to the specifics to get this started. I have no idea where to start.

10x
RPM

[Claudio Cilloni · Accepted solution]

A good starting document is SMB-HOWTO, that can be found at http://www.tldp.org.

hth
Claudio

[Balaji N]

hi

you need to go to the samba web site and look for the documentation.

http://www.samba.org/
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html


by default after installing the samba rpms, just run samba. it should work. then u can start by customizing the smb.conf file.

post specific queries back here.
good luck
-balaji

[Claudio Cilloni]

I great tool to configure samba is SWAT. You can check if it is installed:

$ rpm -qa | grep swat

if it is so, and if you never used it before, you should enable it editing the file /etc/xinetd.d/swat changing the line 'disable = yes' in 'disable = no'.
then restart the xinetd service:

# service xinetd restart

Now you are able to use SWAT connecting to this machine with any browser at port 901.

ciao
Claudio

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

You can read on the http://www.samba.org/

You can run the swat for easy configuration
http://localhost:901
It's web based configuration tool for samba.

Caesar

[Jerome Henry]

Hi,

as you run RH8, here's useful link regarding samba :

http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/rhl8.0/rhl-cg-en-8.0/ch-samba.php3

hth

J