Difference between revisions of "Password Protected Samba Share"
(Created page with "This article describes how to create a basic password protected samba share on Linux. This share can be accessed via Windows, OSX, or Linux. We'll be making a share called <f...") |
|||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
This article describes how to create a basic password protected samba share on Linux. This share can be accessed via Windows, OSX, or Linux. | This article describes how to create a basic password protected samba share on Linux. This share can be accessed via Windows, OSX, or Linux. | ||
| − | We'll be making a share called <font color="red"> | + | 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> |
On CentOS 7, Fedora, Ubuntu, and probably Debian, the process is almost identical. | On CentOS 7, Fedora, Ubuntu, and probably Debian, the process is almost identical. | ||
| Line 32: | Line 32: | ||
Make the directory you want to share: | Make the directory you want to share: | ||
| − | <pre>mkdir /images/ | + | <pre>mkdir /images/fogshare</pre> |
= Create user and set password = | = Create user and set password = | ||
| Line 52: | Line 52: | ||
Set permissions on the local directory: | Set permissions on the local directory: | ||
| − | <pre>chown smalluser:smalluser /images/ | + | <pre>chown smalluser:smalluser /images/fogshare |
| − | chmod 770 /images/ | + | chmod 770 /images/fogshare</pre> |
= Configure Samba = | = Configure Samba = | ||
| Line 70: | Line 70: | ||
dos charset = cp932 | dos charset = cp932 | ||
| − | [ | + | [fogshare] |
| − | path = /images/ | + | path = /images/fogshare |
read only = no | read only = no | ||
create mode = 0777 | create mode = 0777 | ||
Revision as of 05:06, 29 May 2016
This article describes how to create a basic password protected samba share on Linux. 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
On CentOS 7, Fedora, 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
Set samba password for the user “small 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
