Freebsd samba file server

Please type 'make deinstall' to deinstall the port if this is a concern. So, let's fire up Pico: pico smb. Just below the commented out section called [public] just before the ' Other examples' section , let's add a public directory that can be read from and written to by all users: A publicly accessible directory, that can be read from or written to by all valid users.

In order for the users to be able to use Samba on this computer, they have to be added to 2 user databases. The first is the OS database, and the second is the Samba user database. After you have entered your first user, the system will ask you if you have more users to enter. Enter them all. Shows: Ok, let's go. Don't worry about mistakes.

For further comfortable use of the created resources, it would help if you have created an identical account with the same credentials in the AD and added it to the admin group. This is necessary for the further communication with the AD! To verify whether this account is working, run reboot to reboot the server and log in as a new user. To make your work more comfortable, you will manage and configure this server via SSH with the putty utility.

Now, connect to the server remotely. The rights will remain active unless you reboot or log out with the exit command. Here we begin with the ports updating. As I have already told you, upgrade your privileges to the root level with su command and the root password.

Furthermore, with the portsnap fetch and portsnap extract commands only for a fresh and recently installed OS update your ports. Use the portsnap fetch and portsnap update commands for the following use. It can impress you with its broad range of useful options and utilities. You can install mc from the binary packets with no trouble at all by running this command: pkg install mc. LOCAL is a domain name, The names should be written in the high register because this helps you to avoid any problems during configuration.

Do remember, you will need extended privileges for that action. If you want to find out more, you can do it here. Verify the values of the following lines, fix them accordingly in your file, and save the changes:. You can find more about these parameters and their values here and there ;. To make sure that the configuration is successful, all you have to do is introduce the server to the enterprise domain and check whether everything is working just fine:.

Trust me; you probably want to separate your future resource from your working directories of the OS itself: it will come in handy in terms of security and mere convenience in the future. You may not want that and may wish to consider adding the following line to the. I'm doing this because I spotted a message in the mailing list archives which suggested this was a good idea until things were stable. So here's what I did to achieve that change. See above for details. I think that's overkill, but so what.

Select the drive you wish to map. You may also be prompted for a password on that box. If this doesn't work, I strongly urge you to follow the Samba diagnostics. I found them very useful. It seems to move around the website.

Hopefully this will settle down. Very nice! They might help you. Some things may have been changed for security reasons. See the following section. When I first tried a Samba file service which was user specific, I found that connecting or browsing to that service resulted in the following error:.

The full text of the message is available, but the solution has been extracted below for your convenience. Note that this is for NT 4 only. Run Registry Editor Regedt Shut down and restart Windows NT. NOTE : I've been told that recent versions of Samba avoid this problem with a configuration file setting. I've not tracked that down yet. Please refer to the following section for more information.

If any kernel modules were updated, a reboot will be required. Do this with the following commands. Please note: If this is the first time you have run this, it is going to take a while to complete! Either create a directory to share or note an existing directory that you would like shared. Use whatever text editor you like, I will use nano. We need to create a specific samba user. This can be the same user as your system user, but still must be done to allow samba to have its own user.

Note this user should match with the username used in the previous config file!