Samba problems linux

• Where can I learn to configure samba?

Information about samba can be got at http://www.samba.org/.

• How to Start samba automatically when the system boots up?

Ans:

Run the following command as root:

chkconfig –level 345 smb on

• How To access samba directories with Linux?

Ans:

a. Use “smbclient” which is ftp-like client to access SMB/CIFS resources on servers. Please see the manual page (man) for details.

b. Mount samba directories like other file systems:

mount -t smbfs //samba_server/dir /mount_point

More information is available by “man smbfs”.

c. Use GUI tools like Nautilus.

• How To synchronize samba password with operating system?

Ans:

To change the samba password accordingly when you change the password of operating system, please add the following lines to /etc/pam.d/passwd:

# for samba passwd sync

password sufficient pam_smbpass.so audit use_first_pass

• How To limit the space usage of specific users?

 

Ans:

You can configure the quota of file system to do this. Here are sample steps:

a. Edit /etc/fstab to enable quota of the partition which you want to limit:

/dev/sda2 /home ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 1

b. Reboot the system to make changes effective

c. Run the following command:

quotacheck -avug

d. Enable quota:

quotaon -av

e. Set the quota for specific user:

edquota -u specific_user

• How To Configure Samba with xinetd?

Ans:

– Make sure that smb isn’t configured to start as the system boots up

– edit file /etc/xinetd.d/samba to have the following:

service netbios-ns

{

disable = no

socket_type = dgram

protocol = udp

wait = yes

user = root

group = root

server = /usr/sbin/nmbd

}

service netbios-ssn

{

disable = no

socket_type = stream

protocol = tcp

wait = no

user = root

group = root

server = /usr/sbin/smbd

}

• Samba Not Working?

a. Check if there is anything wrong with your configuration by testparm:

/usr/bin/testparm /etc/samba/smb.conf

b. Check if the network is OK between the client and samba server by “ping”.

c. Check if firewall, /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny on samba server are configured properly.

d. Run “nmblookup samba_host” on client. If the IP of samba server can’t be detected.

e. Run “smbclient -L samba_host” on client to verify connectivity

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