This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on
Fedora 10 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol
as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone
server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user
has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol [...]
This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on
Debian Lenny and how to configure it to share files over the SMB
protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a
standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup,
every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol
and [...]
Here is a scenario where you have Windows users who need to log into an encrypted directory that is mounted on a Linux Samba share. This provides an interesting option for security.
The Linux user, who has sudo access logs in and when they do are asked to mount the truecrypt volume and also [...]
This is a howto on getting samba + clamav + samba-vscan to work on a CentOS 5.2 system.
1. First let’s start by getting clamav installed and functioning.
You can either compile it yourself or use yum to install this via a repo. For this we will create a repo named dag.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/. Add the following….
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Openfiler is a high performance operating system tailored for use
as a SAN/NAS appliance. This configuration will enable two Openfiler
appliances to work in an Active/Passive high availability scenario.
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Just a short how to access samba shares via the command line.
smbtree – finds windows machines and samba shares. See example below:
~$ smbtree
Password:
WORKGROUP
MSHOME
\\MYTH-DESKTOP myth-desktop server (Samba, Mythbuntu)
\\MYTH-DESKTOP\videos Videos
Workgroup and MSHOME are two workgroups found [...]
Set up a simple Samba server and start sharing files with your Windows hosts in just a few minutes. Probably more than six minutes, but not many more. This Flash 9 video tutorial shows you exactly how.
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Sometimes sharing files and folder between Windows and GNU/Linux can be annoying and problematic especially for beginners.
In this article we’re going to see how to setup Samba and how to get both Windows and GNU/Linux sharing and browsing public share the right way.
We have two scenarios :
1. GNU/Linux browsing Windows shares.
2. Windows browsing Samba shares.
Let’s [...]
Each time I install (or reinstall/reformat) a development server of my own I install Samba instead of any FTP server as I use Windows as my development platform and prefer to simply network the remote folder. Here is a quick how-to on setting up Samba and sharing a folder.
First we need to install Samba, either [...]
This article shows how to run a file- and print-server for small and
medium enterprises (SME) on one single Ubuntu 8.04 server. It is very
easy to set up, and management is done with an easy-to-use web
interface called eBox
so once the system is set up, you can forget about the command line.
eBox was developed to administrate advanced [...]
This how-to describes how to install and configure Dansguardian with
multi-group filtering, Squid with NTLM auth, ipmasq, and dnsmasq to
provide a full internet gateway solution for small to medium sized
networks. This how-to requires two NICs in order to preform firewalling
and transparent proxying.
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This tutorial shows how to configure Zimbra
Collaboration
Server (ZCS) and Samba to act as a primary domain controller (PDC) that
uses LDAP as a centralized database for authenticating users on Linux
and Windows desktops.
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To easily share your files to linux and windows clients, samba is still the preferred choice. In this guide I will show how to setup a samba server on centos 5 machine, that can be accessed only by certain people protected by password.
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One of the quickest and easiest ways to save quite a bit of money on your network is to utilize a Suse Linux Enterprise Server (or any other GNU/Linux Server) as a Domain Controller for Windows Clients.
Microsoft not only charges a premium for their Server Software, they also charge you a “License” for every client [...]
Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.” Samba is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients.
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