How to setup samba on centos 6.2

Create the directory for sharing the files and change the group to the users group:. In this example, I will add a user named tom. You can add as many users as you need in the same way, just replace the username tom with the desired username in the commands.

Set a password for tom in the Linux system user database. If the user tom should not be able to log into the Linux system, skip this step. CentOS creates a group with the same name as the user unless over-written. This is useful to give supervisory access. Yeah, passion alone does not pay the rent.

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Samba service can provides files haring and printing services to its clients. System administrator can install SWAT in order to configure samba and perform samba administration from the web browser In this post, i will show you on how to install samba service on CentOS 6.

This post assumed that you have configure local yum repository. In this post i will show on how to install and configure a Samba server an also how to transfer files from client side.

For this example we are using Now let's get to the ports and back to Samba. Here is a detailed listing of the ports that Samba needs to work with your system. Port 80 is for the web and port 22 for a secure remote connection ssh. It's not the focus of the article to explain the differences but you can easily do a web search. Just know for now that there is a difference. Use your favorite text editor such as vi or nano or joe or whatever works for you and add these lines to the file depending on your situation.

I'm not going to cover firewalls but understand the basics. Of course you need to modify to your own network and this makes is far more secure than giving the entire world access to your network.

I've done the hard work for you so you don't have to figure out which type to open up] dport [This is the port number. Again for AD we use port This has to be right -- as I've found out myself with a couple of typos! Now restart the firewall. You can also just restart the server if you want to as well. It won't add the -s parameter and will open up all the samba ports - and which is not a recommended scenario.

SELinux Still with us we hope! Next we need to make SELinux happy. SELinux prevents any viewing of a share automatically as a security feature. The first solution for many is to get rid of SELinux -- bad idea.

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