Ubuntu 10.04 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

1 Preliminary Note I'm using an Ubuntu 10.04 system here with the hostname server1.example.com and the IP address 192.168.0.100. I'm running all the steps in this tutorial with root privileges, so make sure you're logged in as root: sudo su 2 Installing Samba Connect to your server on the shell and install the Samba packages: aptitude install libcups2 samba samba-common Edit the smb.conf file: vi /etc/samba/smb.conf In the global section, remove the "#" at the beginning of the line security = user so that it looks like this: [...] # "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account # in this server for every user accessing the server. See # /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/ServerType.html # in the samba-doc package for details. security = user [...] This enables Linux system users to log in to the Samba server. Close the file and restart Samba: /etc/init.d/smbd restart 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 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: [...] [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no valid users = %S writable = yes create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 Now we restart Samba: /etc/init.d/smbd 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 in to the Linux system, skip this step. passwd tom -> Enter the password for the new user. 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 \\192.168.0.100\tom 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. ค่า config [global]    security = USER ## Browsing/Identification ### # Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of    workgroup = WORKGROUP    netbios name = datacenter # server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field    server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu) admin users = jason #   usershare allow guests = yes [allusers]   comment = All Users   path = /home/shares/allusers   valid users = @users   force group = users   create mask = 0660   directory mask = 0771   writable = yes [homes]    comment = Home Directories    browseable = no    valid users = %S    writable = yes    create mask = 0700    directory mask = 0700