NEW FAQ. Please read and Advise!

[butchrecon]

Hello everone. I have seen lately a TON of questions on setting up a Samba share for Windows. So I put in the FAQ sectoin a BASIC setup for SAMBA. Please review it and let me know if there is anything that can be done to Enhance it or make it easier to do.

Thank You


FAQ faq619-783 James Collins
Computer Hardware Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

 

[rycamor]

Fair enough, for a "quick guide for the impatient ;-)" except "Ensure that Samba is installed and running.", might be a little too terse for some users.

Basically your example implements a public share that is gives "Full Control" to "Everyone" in that workgroup. You might want to provide an addendum explaining that, and mentioning how to set up folders with user permissions, read-only access, "smbpasswd", etc...

Here is my example of a simple share of one user's directory, allowing certain other users read-only access (assuming private IP's behind a firewall):

#============================ Share Definitions =============================
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = yes
writable = yes

[rick]
comment = Rick's stuff
path = /usr/home/rick/shared
valid users = rick george juan
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
create mask = 0765
guest ok=no

...so, it should be pretty obvious; this configuration allows connections only from the internal 192.168.1.x
network, and localhost, and it shares a directory called "share/" under the user "rick", allowing users "george" and "juan" to also access this share.

Here is one location for the complete HOW-TO, also:

http://www.linux.com/howto/SMB-HOWTO.html

 

[butchrecon]

Thanks for the input. I will get your suggestions phased into my FAQ. You are correct. It was just to get a samba share set up and running, nothing fancy. James Collins
Computer Hardware Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net