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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-[[Computing]]: [[Linux]]: [[Samba]]
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+[[page type::article]]
-[[Samba]] is a program which allows "Network Neighborhood"-style communication between Linux and Windows. It is named after the SMB protocol, which is what Windows uses for "Network Neighborhood" communication.
+[[thing type::software]]
-==Commands==
+[[software type::server]]
-* '''User commands'''
+[[category:software]]
-** [[net (Samba command)|net]]
+</hide>
-** [[nmblookup]]
+==About==
-** [[smbclient]]
+[[Samba]] is open-source server software which allows "[[Network Neighborhood]]"-style communication between [[Microsoft Windows]] and other [[operating system]]s such as [[Linux]]. It is named after the [[SMB protocol]], which is what Windows uses for "Network Neighborhood" communication.
-** [[smbpasswd]]
+==Pages==
-** [[testparm]]
+* {{l/sub|browser}}: debugging master/domain browser issues
-* '''System commands''' (not usually run by the user)
+* {{l/sub|commands}} for interacting with Samba
-** [[smbd]]: the Samba [[daemon]]
+* {{l/sub|how-to}}: specific things
-==Related Articles==
+* {{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
-==How To==
-===Debug connection/access issues===
-Samba maintains activity logs in /var/log/samba/. There seem to be two logs, log.nmbd and log.smbd; log.smbd generally has information about connections and access, while log.nmbd has more to to with network-name resolution. The nature of the log files is configurable somewhat through [[smb.conf]] (see '''log level''', among others). Use '''[[tail (command)|tail]] -f /var/log/samba/log.smbd''' (for example) to monitor a logfile in real-time.
-===Restart the Samba Server===
-If you have Fedora Core, there's a convenient little "services" application you can use to restart Samba and several dozen other services. For the rest of us, however, there's a command you have to execute from a root terminal.
-On [[Ubuntu]], and probably other [[Debian]]-based systems:
- [[sudo]] /etc/init.d/samba restart
-On [[SuSE]] 10.0 and [[Fedora Core]] 4:
- [[sudo]] /etc/init.d/smb restart
-This will ask for a password; type in your password (not root's) unless you have reconfigured your sudo setup. (This assumes you have sudo privileges; if not, [[su]] to get root access and then type the rest of the command without the "sudo".)
-On [[Red Hat Linux|Red Hat]], I'm told the command would be:
- /sbin/samba restart
-(Possibly substituting "smb" for "samba"; ls the directory in question to find a list of services.) This is the same general technique used for restarting services, which should itself probably be documented somewhere. (The Samba share configuration GUI program really ought to have a "restart Samba server" button, though, even if it does this automatically when you change parameters -- because there is no way to know if it is doing this otherwise.)
-===Configure Samba for "guest" logins===
-As most home operating systems are now moving towards requiring users to have login accounts, this is becoming less necessary -- but it is still useful under some circumstances (such as wanting to give access to Win9x machines with the login dialogue bypassed).
-Configuration for [[smb.conf]]:
-In the [global] section:
- # Causes Samba to act as WINS server, which turns network names into IP addresses.
- wins support = yes
- # Causes Samba to act as Local Master Browser
- # (This can help prevent conflicts between XP and 9x, where XP tends to take over and refuse access to non-XP systems)
- local master = yes
- # These may or may not be important, but it's how my system is set:
- socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
- winbind uid = 16777216-33554431
- winbind gid = 16777216-33554431
- guest account = sambaguest
- password server = None
- guest ok = yes
- security = SHARE
- username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
- # these options help to prevent permissions conflicts
- # (where the "sambaguest" user creates files which (by default) nobody else can write or delete)
- force group = lanusers
- force create mode = 0060
- create mask = 0775
-I haven't tested these to see if these options are all helpful or if there are other options which are necessary; this is just a first pass based on a combination of (vague) understanding and actual experience.
-After editing and saving smb.conf. restart the Samba daemon for changes to take effect.
-Tentative explanation of "guest" status: SMB has the concept of a "guest account", which is what Win9x uses by default when connecting via SMB (if you set up user logins, then I think it uses the actual username, but I haven't tested this); the "guest account" setting is the user which Samba appears to be when the SMB "guest account" is accessing files. In other words, for example: files created by a SMB "guest account" will appear on a Linux system as created by "sambaguest". If the "force group" setting is used, then those files will also be owned by the specified group.
-===Get DNS to Recognize NetBIOS Names===
-I haven't actually figured this one out yet; I've seen several workable solutions, but they all seem hideously complicated. This shouldn't be a difficult problem.
-One possible phrasing of the problem, for purists: How can we add {NetBIOS's knowledge of machine names on the network} to the available domain space? This is needed so that commands which accept a domain name as input (e.g. ftp, ssh, mysql) can accept a machine name instead, removing the necessity to manually look up the machine's IP address.
-One useful bit of information: the command '''{{linuxcmd|nmblookup}} <u>netbiosname</u>''' will accept a NetBIOS name and return an IP address, as will '''{{linuxcmd|net}} lookup <u>netbiosname</u>''' (although nmblookup seems to be significantly faster, and returns more information).
-A program called [http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html dnsmasq] apparently provides a service to do this; it requires a server with a fixed IP.
-==Reference==
-*[[Wikipedia:Samba software]]
-*[[Wikipedia:Server Message Block]]: SMB protocol
 ==Links==
-* [http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1138772,00.html Managing Samba: Choose your weapon -- Windows network ID basics]: seems to cover some useful concepts
+===Official===
+* [http://samba.org official site]
+===Reference===
+* '''Wikipedia''':
+** {{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