Difference between revisions of "Password Protected Samba Share"
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We'll be making a share called <font color="red">fogshare</font>. It will be accessible via UNC paths in windows as <font color="red">\\x.x.x.x\fogshare</font> where x.x.x.x is the server's IP address. The share will reside on disk at <font color="red">/images/fogshare</font> The user defined with permissions and access is called <font color="red">smalluser</font> | We'll be making a share called <font color="red">fogshare</font>. It will be accessible via UNC paths in windows as <font color="red">\\x.x.x.x\fogshare</font> where x.x.x.x is the server's IP address. The share will reside on disk at <font color="red">/images/fogshare</font> The user defined with permissions and access is called <font color="red">smalluser</font> | ||
| − | I've chosen to place the share in the /images directory because in an optimal fog partition layout, this directory typically has it's own partition and thus ample space. You may place the share wherever you like, simply by choosing another place to create the directory. Be sure to set permissions on the alternate directory and change the <font color="red">path</font> setting in the | + | I've chosen to place the share in the /images directory because in an optimal fog partition layout, this directory typically has it's own partition and thus ample space. You may place the share wherever you like, simply by choosing another place to create the directory. Be sure to set permissions on the alternate directory and change the <font color="red">path</font> setting in the Samba configuration file. |
On CentOS 7, Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu, and probably Debian, the process is almost identical. | On CentOS 7, Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu, and probably Debian, the process is almost identical. | ||
Revision as of 05:18, 29 May 2016
This article describes how to create a basic password protected Samba share on Linux, accessible by only one user. This share can be accessed via Windows, OSX, or Linux.
We'll be making a share called fogshare. It will be accessible via UNC paths in windows as \\x.x.x.x\fogshare where x.x.x.x is the server's IP address. The share will reside on disk at /images/fogshare The user defined with permissions and access is called smalluser
I've chosen to place the share in the /images directory because in an optimal fog partition layout, this directory typically has it's own partition and thus ample space. You may place the share wherever you like, simply by choosing another place to create the directory. Be sure to set permissions on the alternate directory and change the path setting in the Samba configuration file.
On CentOS 7, Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu, and probably Debian, the process is almost identical.
Contents
Install Samba
For CentOS 7 and older, and Fedora 21 and older, install Samba:
yum install samba samba-client -y
For Fedora 22 and newer, and probably CentOS 8 and newer, install Samba:
dnf install samba samba-client -y
For Ubuntu and Debian, install Samba:
apt-get install samba samba-client -y
Start Samba
Start Samba on Fedora/CentOS/RHEL:
systemctl start smb
Start Samba on Ubuntu/Debian:
service smb start
Make the directory
Make the directory you want to share:
mkdir /images/fogshare
Create user and set password
Make a user specifically for it:
useradd smalluser
Set the user's password:
passwd smalluser
Add the user to Samba and set a password for the user, this should match the previous password:
smbpasswd -a smalluser
Set permissions
Set permissions on the local directory:
chown smalluser:smalluser /images/fogshare chmod 770 /images/fogshare
Configure Samba
Setup the samba configuration script:
vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
Instructions on using Vi: vi
Below is the Samba configuration file. Things above [smallshare] are global and apply to all shares. Then below each bracket name, is settings specific to the share. Feel free to copy/paste.
security = user passdb backend = tdbsam unix charset = utf-8 dos charset = cp932 [fogshare] path = /images/fogshare read only = no create mode = 0777 directory mode = 0777 writable = yes valid users = smalluser
Restart Samba
Then restart Samba in Fedora/CentOS/RHEL:
systemctl restart smb
Restart Samba on Ubuntu/Debian:
service smb restart
