Difference between revisions of "Samba"

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About

Samba is open-source server software which allows "Network Neighborhood"-style communication between Microsoft Windows and other operating systems such as Linux. It is named after the SMB protocol, which is what Windows uses for "Network Neighborhood" communication.

Pages

browser: debugging master/domain browser issues
commands for interacting with Samba
how-to: specific things
printing: using Samba to serve shared printers
files: what the files mean and where they are kept

Errors

The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available: a Samba-related error on Windows XP

Links

Official

official site

Reference

Wikipedia:
- Samba software
- Server Message Block: the SMB protocol

Articles

1999-11 Chapter 3: Configuring Windows Clients from the book Using Samba by Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown, Peter Kelly (this shows how to set up Win9x machines for non-anonymous connection to Samba)
Managing Samba: Choose your weapon – Windows network ID basics: seems to cover some useful concepts

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 * {{l/sub|browser}}: debugging master/domain browser issues
 * {{l/sub|commands}} for interacting with Samba
-* {{l/sub|how-to}}
+* {{l/sub|how-to}}: specific things
 * {{l/sub|printing}}: using Samba to serve shared printers
-* '''files'''
+* {{l/sub|files}}: what the files mean and where they are kept
-** [[smb.conf]]: the Samba configuration file
+==Errors==
-** [[smbusers]]: the Samba users file
+* [[The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available]]: a Samba-related error on Windows XP
-==Notes==
-''as explained by user adaptr on #samba on freenode:''
-Each machine that participates in a netbios/smb network (or workgroup) is both client and server - it takes services and advertises them. Any machine at least advertises the <u>MACHINE</u> service &ndash; just its own netbios machine name with a specific SMB service type &ndash; so even if it's only trying to browse or auth to an SMB server, that client offers its own service data to what is known as the [[SMB/master browser|master browser]].
-''user kukks adds:''
-To get more debug info from the cifs kernel module, use the following as root:
- echo 7 > /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI
-This will instruct cifs vfs to write more debug stuff to the kernel log.
-===can't browse into folders===
-The following lines in [[smb.conf]] fix a common problem where you can see folders underneath a share but can't browse into them (this may only be a problem if they are symbolic links):
- # 2010-04-20 makes wide links work again
-  # allows samba to show/include symbolic-linked folders and files:
-  follow symlinks = yes
-  # allows links to targets not within the shared folder
-  wide links = yes
-  # disable option incompatible with wide links
-  unix extensions  = no
-==How To==
 ==Links==
 ===Official===
 * [http://samba.org official site]
 ===Reference===
-* [[Wikipedia:Samba software]]
+* '''Wikipedia''':
-* [[Wikipedia:Server Message Block]]: SMB protocol
+** {{l/wp|Samba software}}
+** {{l/wp|Server Message Block}}: the SMB protocol
 ===Articles===
 * '''1999-11''' [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch03_01.html Chapter 3: Configuring Windows Clients] from the book ''Using Samba'' by Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown, Peter Kelly (this shows how to set up [[Win9x]] machines for non-anonymous connection to Samba)
 * [http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1138772,00.html Managing Samba: Choose your weapon &ndash; Windows network ID basics]: seems to cover some useful concepts