This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 9.10 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 and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
1 Preliminary Note
I'm using an Ubuntu 9.10 system here with the hostname server1.example.com and the IP address 192.168.0.100.
I'm running all the steps in this tutorial with root privileges, so make sure you're logged in as root:
sudo su
2 Installing Samba
Connect to your server on the shell and install the Samba packages:
aptitude install libcupsys2 samba samba-common
Edit the smb.conf file:
vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
In the global section, remove the "#" at the beginning of the line security = user so that it looks like this:
[...]
# "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
# in this server for every user accessing the server. See
# /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/ServerType.html
# in the samba-doc package for details.
security = user
[...]
This enables Linux system users to log in to the Samba server.
Close the file and restart Samba:
/etc/init.d/samba restart
3 Adding Samba Shares
Now I will add a share that is accessible by all users.
Create the directory for sharing the files and change the group to the users group:
mkdir -p /home/shares/allusers
chown -R root:users /home/shares/allusers/
chmod -R ug+rwx,o+rx-w /home/shares/allusers/
At the end of the file /etc/samba/smb.conf add the following lines:
vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
[...]
[allusers]
comment = All Users
path = /home/shares/allusers
valid users = @users
force group = users
create mask = 0660
directory mask = 0771
writable = yes
If you want all users to be able to read and write to their home directories via Samba, add the following lines to /etc/samba/smb.conf:
[...]
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
valid users = %S
writable = yes
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700
Now we restart Samba:
/etc/init.d/samba restart
4 Adding And Managing Users
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.
useradd tom -m -G users
Set a password for tom in the Linux system user database. If the user tom should not be able to log in to the Linux system, skip this step.
passwd tom
-> Enter the password for the new user.
Now add the user to the Samba user database:
smbpasswd -a tom
-> Enter the password for the new user.
Now you should be able to log in from your Windows workstation with the file explorer (address is \\192.168.0.100 or \\192.168.0.100\tom for tom's home directory) using the username tom and the chosen password and store files on the Linux server either in tom's home directory or in the public shared directory.
5 Links
• Samba: http://www.samba.org/
• Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/
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How to install Samba, File sharing between Ubuntu Linux and Windows
aris on January 30th, 2010
Panduan Instalasi Samba di Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic :
1. cek apakah samba telah terinstall dan siap dijalankan
sudo /etc/init.d/samba start
2. Jika belum terinstall kemudian lakukan instalasi dengan perintah berikut :
sudo apt-get install samba
sudo apt-get install smbfs
sudo apt-get install nautilus-share
3. Jika Instalasi diatas belum bisa dilakukan, biasanya karena link updatenya belum diisi atau listnya belum di updatenya,
Ketikkan perintah berikut :
apt-get update
4. Install sudah bisa dilakukan, ulangi perintah no 2
5 Setting supaya samba bekerja sebagai service atau daemon
sudo aptitude install samba
sudo aptitude install smbfs
6. Masuklah direktori /home/fujitsu/
cd /home/fujitsu
7. Buatlah direktori share
mkdir share
8. buatlah folder bisa di share dengan mengklik kanan dan pilihlah menu share
9. Lalu tugas saya selanjutnya adalah menambahkan samba user pada system
sudo useradd namauser
sudo smbpasswd -a namauser
10.Jalankan samba dengan perintah
/etc/init.d/samba start
11. Option : Installah smb4K untuk membatu sharing data di ubuntu dengan peringah
sudo apt-get install smb4K
12. Masuklah windows dan masuk eksplorer kemudian masuklah network
data di linux sudah siap di share
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