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Network Troublshooting => General Networking Support in Linux => Topic started by: shani on December 29, 2004, 03:33:58 PM

Title: Samba
Post by: shani on December 29, 2004, 03:33:58 PM

Hi everyone!

i want to access my linux box from windows
so i need to configure the samba

please tell me the easiest configuration for samba so that
i can share my one floder of linux i.e (tmp) in which i can put any docment from window to linux box

kindly tell me simple configuration

thanks

Best regard

shani

Title: Samba
Post by: roxyboby on December 29, 2004, 06:49:15 PM

Hi! shani.  have u tried the webmin tool. it's a cool tool to configure a lot of servers on linux without even knowing the configs.  Try it out.  in the meantime pls let me know which distro of linux you are using!!!

Title: Samba
Post by: shani on December 30, 2004, 10:06:05 AM

i am using Red hat linux 8.0

i used webmin but i want confiure it through shell (config file)

can you help me?

thanks for your reply

regard
akmal

Title: Samba
Post by: dragoncity99 on December 31, 2004, 01:54:15 PM

No, pal. U dont do that. U should just go to /etc/smb.conf  and change the smb.conf file.

Open ur favorite editor and uncomment the  [tmp] share  section. I mean remove those # signs and that's it.
Restart ur samba:

type: service smb restart

and that's it.

Title: Samba
Post by: shani on January 06, 2005, 01:37:53 PM

Thanks Dragoncity
 i have done that
bye

Title: Reg.Samba Sharing
Post by: voltage1i on September 20, 2005, 05:20:10 AM

open the configuration file

1 vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
2. go to the lastline.Type the following
3 [smb] - general share name
   
comment = any thing
 valid users = username
 writable = yes
 public = yes

ESC  :wq

smbpasswd -a username

service smb restart

go the another linux machine type the following

//severip(shared machine ip)/sharename -U username

Title: Samba
Post by: gauravbajaj on September 20, 2005, 05:43:12 AM

Hi Shani

Follow this link:

siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-hn/samba.htm

Gaurav