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    freak-of-lenux

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    Updated: Oct 21, 2024
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    A very GUD mourning to all the engineers

    As iam dealing with my major project , i have been allotted with the topic SAMBA SERVER. My idea is to establish SAMBA server on my college's WIFI network and i want all the files and data to be accessed by phones(consisting of OS android, Symbian,windows) and any other device enabled with WIFI , is it possible to do soo? As iam a new chap or we can say beginner in Linux,iam not getting where to start with and how to start ? hope you guyzz will help me out to find the solution. thank you
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  • Abhishek Rawal

    Member • Aug 2, 2012

    yes its possible (or maybe not 😳 )
    But i know very little about it ... thought I will try to explain upto what i know about SAMBA.

    Check if SAMBA is installed or not
    Go to terminal & type
    rpm -q samba
    If it indicates that "package is not installed" you gotta download its RPM package, its available in RH disk and/or you can even download it from <a href="https://www.samba.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Samba - opening windows to a wider world</a>
    Once u download the RPM package, it installation time. Browse to where Samba is downloaded & perform
    rpm -i samba.rpm
    (you might need to replace samba.rpm with full version name of file)
    As Samba is installed now ,lets configure it:
    every configuration of samba is included in smb.conf located at /etc/samba/smb.conf
    Fresh installation will have a whole new smb.conf sample file, casual users wont need half of this sample file.
    If you want to share some folders around small LAN you better edit smb.conf as i give below:
    [indent][global]
workgroup = Trolled
server string = Boom my Unix
hosts allow = 192.168.127.x
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
 
[Downloads]
comment = Downloads
path = /home/windisk/Downloads
browseable = yes
writable = yes
public = yes
read only = no
 
[homes]
comment = My Home Directory
browseable = yes
writable = yes
public = yes
read only = no
 
[printers]
path = /var/spool/samba
public = yes
guest ok = yes
printable = yes
browseable = yes
writable = yes
read only = no
[/indent]
    Choose yes/no as per ur choice.

    I dont know how to setup samba users;
    hope someone here helps you out, else i will ask my friend ... will learn it & will get on u asap
    sorry for partial info.
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  • Abhishek Rawal

    Member • Aug 3, 2012

    Setting up samba users:

    we need to create smbpasswd file that we mentioned in smb.conf file
    Easy method is to create it based on ur existing /etc/passwd file
    [indent]cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh > /etc/samba/smbpasswd
[/indent]
    Chmod 600 the file (/etc/samba/smbpasswd) so only root has R/W authority.
    Well, file copies over Linux users and not over their passwords
    so follow the below command to set each samba user password
    [indent]smbpasswd Troll_so_hard
[/indent]
    Obviously change the username with your user's username. You will be prompted for password.
    Well I always select password same as my "root" .. Just to ease out things(I hate remembering passwords)
    Ofcourse its not necessary.

    Samba runs in background alike LinDaemon
    Control it by typing
    [indent]service smb start
service smb stop
service smb restart
[/indent]
    Note : Once computer is shutdown & restarted Samba wont execute automatically.
    Xwindows serviceconf can be used to execute all program automatically

    Testing :
    connecting to localhost
    [indent]smbclient //localhost/Downloads
[/indent]
    you have to specify name of computer & resource you wanna share.
    in smb.conf file we have specified /home/windisk/Downloads .
    Hence here I will be using downloads resource.

    Its all set up now !

    If you wish you can go on Windows machine .Opening network places & browsing the workgroup your linux machine will be listed. If you want to access it you will be asked for username & password, u can enter any samba users you previously created, Log in & you can see all available resources.

    Good luck ! 👍



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