Samba

GUI_XP

any1 setup a samba server on a linux or windows box?

Emboss

ye ?

oslin

yes samba/winbind.
on debian stable.

GUI_XP

i have a good understanding of SMB,CIFS so im well interested in SAMBA.. as i studied it for a college project
thing is im complete linux newbie..

does redhat come with samba?

i saw a download for samba for redhat?

what distro would u recommend for me
setting up a samba test box on our 2k lan

leeroybrown

Samba (http://ie.samba.org/samba/samba.html) should work with every linux distribution.

All the major Linux distributions will have samba packaged with them. Samba is one of the common packages that is on most Linux install discs. It is also supported on many of the other Unix OSen.

Since you are new to Linux I'd suggest using one of the more newbie friendly distributions such as RedHat or Mandrake (both of which definitely come with Samba packaged).

oslin

I find debian very easy, even for a newbie.

leeroybrown

I'm a Debian user myself but Redhat and Mandrake are far more newbie friendly.

BTBB

I have a bit of experiance. I setup 8 Win98 systems with a Samba server(SuSE 7.0 Prof- It'll be Debian within a month). Full logins, userspace, quotas all that stuff.

Also two days back I set up a 486 with Samba to serve my Parallel ZIP to my main PC as it used to take 25mins to transfer a full 96MB and you couldn't do anything else while it was copying. Now its just so much nicer - I can use it in both Win98SE and Debian.

As most home distributions(as contrasted with Professional/Server) don't include any such servers you'll probably need to download it.

RPM should be on RH website, else just get it off the main samba site. Just watch where it 'make install's.

Tom Dunne

Originally posted by GUI_XP
what distro would u recommend for me
setting up a samba test box on our 2k lan

I set up Samba yesterday on my brand new Suse 8.2 box. It was disturbingly easy. The biggest problem I had was that I didn't realise you needed four backslashes instead of two (i.e. smbclient \\\\Windows\\C instead of \\windows\c )

Zaltais

Originally posted by tom dunne
I set up Samba yesterday on my brand new Suse 8.2 box. It was disturbingly easy. The biggest problem I had was that I didn't realise you needed four backslashes instead of two (i.e. smbclient \\\\Windows\\C instead of \\windows\c )

You could use mount you know.

mount -t smbfs //10.0.0.1/sharename /mnt/mountpoint -o username=<username>,password=<password>

where:
10.0.0.1 is the IP of the machine you're connecting to
sharename is the share name - (surprising that)
<username> is a username to connect as - (no, really ?!?!)
<password> is the password associated with <username> - (egads man that's bizarre!)

man 8 mount for more....

Of course you could also add a line to your fstab to auto mount it...

Kali

smbclient '\\server\share' -u username
works for me.. dunno why you'd need those extra slashes.

a_ominous

The double backslash is needed in his case coz he didn't use single quotes as you did. Backslash is a special character and has to be quoted using a backslash
For example if you want to print a TAB
echo \thello

echo '\'
will give the same result as
echo \\

If you had lots of characters to escape, then use single quotes for clarity.

-ao-

Tom Dunne

Originally posted by Kali
smbclient '\\server\share' -u username
works for me.. dunno why you'd need those extra slashes.

I can't believe I didn't try that!

Thanks Zaltais, I also didn't know I could mount the share like that.

You learn something new everyday.

flamegrill

Originally posted by a_ominous
The double backslash is needed in his case coz he didn't use single quotes as you did. Backslash is a special character and has to be quoted using a backslash
For example if you want to print a TAB
echo \thello

echo '\'
will give the same result as
echo \\

If you had lots of characters to escape, then use single quotes for clarity.

-ao-

I think its actually got to do with Escaping the backslash, as the shell would moan about it etc. Single quots is a good idea in linux for a lot of reasons, they can save time, hair and energy :-)

Paul