Samba configuration help

Frozennova · 16 Jan 2013 at 21:59

My past experiences with Linux smb shares have always been through a gui. I'm currently setting up a lightweight centos server and I'm a little stuck with getting a share accessible by guests from windows.

Can someone point me in the right direction of what my smb.Conf should look like

melvis · 16 Jan 2013 at 22:56

a good guide is at
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-6.html
and ofcourse make sure your samba daemon, smbd, is restarted after configuration changes

!bluetonic! · 17 Jan 2013 at 12:25

There's the easy-to-use Samba web admin tool that should be available at

http://localhost:901

melvis · 17 Jan 2013 at 15:19

i think hes on a no gui server, the web admin tool is easy on a gui, but can be a pita through elinks imo, easier to stick with nano and smb.conf but thats just my opinion

Frozennova · 17 Jan 2013 at 19:42

The issues had nothing to do with samba in to your end. I'm used the deviant flavours of linux so had no idea that I had to allow samba permissions with selinux

melvis · 18 Jan 2013 at 14:07

oh yea, selinux is always screwing me up too, my servers bash history is probably a quarter chkcon commands lol

Reedy · 19 Jan 2013 at 02:24

!bluetonic! said:
There's the easy-to-use Samba web admin tool that should be available at

http://localhost:901

Only if SWAT is actually installed.

If you really don't care about security, the following 3 usually make it simpler to play with.

Code:

     public = yes
     browseable = yes
     read only = no

And don't forget to restart samba after changing the config