Question : Howto Install SAMBA on Fedora17 and Centos 6.x?
Answer:
1- To install the samba package,enter the following command:
yum install samba samba-client samba-common
2- Configure the samba service, so that, it will start automatically at boot time:
– Centos 6.2
chkconfig smb on chkconfig nmb on service smb start service nmb start
– Fedora 17
systemctl enable smb.service systemctl enable nmb.service systemctl start smb.service systemctl start nmb.service
3- Disable the SELinux:
nano /etc/selinux/config
Change SELinux from enforcing to disabled:
SELINUX=disabled
– Add these Iptables rules, so that samba will work perfectly:
iptables -I INPUT 4 -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 137 -j ACCEPT iptables -I INPUT 5 -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 138 -j ACCEPT iptables -I INPUT 6 -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 139 -j ACCEPT service iptables save
4- Now edit samba config file
nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
Add these lines, in your smb.conf file (or change it according to your requirement):
#======================= Global Settings ===================================== [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP security = share map to guest = bad user #============================ Share Definitions ============================== [MyShare] path = /samba/share browsable =yes writable = yes guest ok = yes read only = no
Save the smb.conf file and restart the service:
service smb restart service nmb restart
Change it, in such a way that everyone can read and write it(Check if it is allowed in your environment or not):
chmod -R 0777 /samba/share
4- Add and manage users and groups
Add a group in your CentOS server (in my case smbgrp):
groupadd smbgrp
Create a new share, set the permission on the share:
cd /samba/ mkdir secure chown -R unixmentest:smbgrp secure/ ls -l chmod -R 0770 secure/ ls -l
Add the user to the samba group and create samba password:
usermod -a -G smbgrp unixmentest smbpasswd -a unixmentest
Edit the smb.conf file:
nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
Add the newly created samba share in smb.conf file:
[Secure] path = /samba/secure valid users = @smbgrp guest ok = no writable = yes browsable = yes
Restart the samba service:
– For Centos
service smb restart service nmb restart
For Fedora
systemctl restart smb.service systemctl restart nmb.service
Enjoy
