====== Samba ====== Samba is a UNIX tool used to share Unix directories on a Windows Network, or access Windows shares from a UNIX Network. ===== Mounting a Windows Share on a Linux FS ===== You will need to install the samba client on machines where you want to access shares: yum -y install samba-client Now mount the shared directory smbmount -o username=prodadmin,password=secret //xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/home/prodadmin ===== Setting up a Linux Directory as Windows Share ===== ===== Adding users ===== ===== Basic configuration with smb.conf ===== * Most of samba's configuration is done through smb.conf. On Fedora, this is found in /etc/samba/smb.conf * For basic configuration, change the workgroup name, and add a netbios name so the server can be identified by name: # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name workgroup = sportcentric # Netbios name netbios name = WOLF