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    Fedora 13 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

    By Falko Timme
    Published: 2010-08-03 13:19

    Fedora 13 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend


    Version 1.0
    Author: Falko Timme <ft [at] falkotimme [dot] com>

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    Last edited 06/08/2010

    This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Fedora 13 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 a Fedora 13 system here with the hostname server1.example.com and the IP address 192.168.0.100.

    Please make sure that SELinux is disabled as shown in chapter 5 of this tutorial: The Perfect Server - Fedora 13 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2] - Page 3

    2 Installing Samba
    Connect to your server on the shell and install the Samba packages:

    yum install cups-libs samba samba-common

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    Edit the smb.conf file:

    vi /etc/samba/smb.conf

    Make sure you see the following lines in the [global] section:

    [...]
    # ----------------------- Standalone Server Options ------------------------
    #
    # security = the mode Samba runs in. This can be set to user, share
    # (deprecated), or server (deprecated).
    #
    # passdb backend = the backend used to store user information in. New
    # installations should use either tdbsam or ldapsam. No additional configuration
    # is required for tdbsam. The "smbpasswd" utility is available for backwards
    # compatibility.
    #

    security = user
    passdb backend = tdbsam

    [...]

    This enables Linux system users to log in to the Samba server.

    Then create the system startup links for Samba and start it:

    chkconfig --levels 235 smb on

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    /etc/init.d/smb start

    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

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    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 (make sure you
    comment out or remove the other [homes] section in the smb.conf file!):

    [...]
    [homes]
    comment = Home Directories
    browseable = no
    valid users = %S
    writable = yes
    create mask = 0700
    directory mask = 0700

    Now we restart Samba:

    /etc/init.d/smb 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 into the Linux system, skip this step.

    passwd tom

    -> Enter the password for the new user.

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    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 \192.168.0.100tom 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/
    - Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/

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