Samba Stuff

Mount with no mandatory filesystem locks:

mount -t cifs //164.88.15.27/imagedata /mnt/imagedata/ -o user=administrator,pass=hpinvent,rw,soft,nobrl

or try with -o nomand

Add a quick samba share:

yum install cups-libs samba samba-common

mkdir -p /home/shares/allusers

chown -R root:users /home/shares/allusers/

chmod -R ug+rwx,o+rx-w /home/shares/allusers/

vi /etc/samba/smb.conf

security = user

passdb backend = tdbsam

[allusers]

comment = All Users

path = /home/shares/allusers

valid users = @users

force group = users

create mask = 0660

directory mask = 0771

writable = yes

chkconfig --levels 235 smb on

/etc/init.d/smb start

testparm

useradd storage -m -G users

passwd storage

smbpasswd -a storage

From other box:

mkdir /mnt/imagedatanew

mount -t cifs //164.88.15.156/allusers /mnt/imagedatanew/ -o user=storage

When Desktop.ini keeps popping up

Put this into the smb.conf >

hide files = /Desktop.ini/desktop.ini/ntuser.ini/NTUSER.*/

pdbedit can be used to check if the root account is locked and change settings etc

Check user exists

id username

Check the samba configs (basically parses the /etc/samba/smb.conf)

testparm

-from here you can see which groups have access to each share

-also if the forcegroup = +sales is set than the sticky bit does not need setting on the folder and

the sales group has access

List the (browseable) shares on a server

smbclient -L //server/share -U username

or

smbclient -L localhost and press enter when prompted for a password

or

smbclient //localhost/Sales\ And\ Marketing\ Department -U joeym for share with spaces

Add a new Samba user

useradd username

smbpasswd -a username

vigr to put them in the right group