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

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