Step 5) Accessing Samba share from windows machine. From your Windows PC, press Windows Key + R to launch the Run dialog and type. Hostname-of-samba server. This opens a window below with an ‘Anonymous' folder. Linux system can also browse and mount SMB shares. In this article I am going to explain how you can mount SAMBA file system (SMBFS) permanently in Linux. Please note that this can be done whether the server is a Windows machine or a Samba server. Listing SMB Share Folder # smbclient –L IPAddress –U username.
8. Accessing an SMB Share With Linux Machines
Linux (UNIX) machines can also browse and mount SMB shares. Note that this can be done whether the server is a Windows machine or a Samba server!
An SMB client program for UNIX machines is included with the Samba distribution. It provides an ftp-like interface on the command line. You can use this utility to transfer files between a Windows 'server' and a Linux client.
Most Linux distributions also now include the useful smbfs package, which allows one to mount and umount SMB shares. More on smbfs below.
To see which shares are available on a given host, run:
where 'host' is the name of the machine that you wish to view. this will return a list of 'service' names - that is, names of drives or printers that it can share with you. Unless the SMB server has no security configured, it will ask you for a password. Get it the password for the 'guest' account or for your personal account on that machine.
For example:
The output of this command should look something like this:
The browse list shows other SMB servers with resources to share on the network.
To use the client, run:
where 'service' is a machine and share name. For example, if you are trying to reach a directory that has been shared as 'public' on a machine called zimmerman, the service would be called zimmermanpublic. However, due to shell restrictions, you will need to escape the backslashes, so you end up with something like this:
where 'mypasswd' is the literal string of your password.
You will get the smbclient prompt:
Type 'h' to get help using smbclient:
Samba Status_more_processing_required
If you can use ftp, you shouldn't need the man pages for smbclient.
Although you can use smbclient for testing, you will soon tire of it for real work. For that you will probably want to use the smbfs package. Smbfs comes with two simple utilties, smbmount and smbumount. They work just like mount and umount for SMB shares.
One important thing to note: You must have smbfs support compiled into your kernel to use these utilities!
The following shows a typical use of smbmount to mount an SMB share called 'customers' from a machine called 'samba1':
Issuing a mount command will now show the share mounted, just as if it were an NFS export:
Please see the manual pages for smbmount and smbumount for details on the above operation.
NextPreviousContentsSamba server is used as a Domain Controller as well as creating network share which can be used to transfer data between windows and Linux.
Prerequisites:
Make sure you have samba package in your machine
# rpm -qa | grep samba
samba-client-3.5.10-125.el6.i686
samba4-libs-4.0.0-23.alpha11.el6.i686
samba-common-3.5.10-125.el6.i686
samba-winbind-clients-3.5.10-125.el6.i686
samba-3.5.10-125.el6.i686
If the samba package is not there in your system then you can install it using
# yum -y install samba
Step 5) Accessing Samba share from windows machine. From your Windows PC, press Windows Key + R to launch the Run dialog and type. Hostname-of-samba server. This opens a window below with an ‘Anonymous' folder. Linux system can also browse and mount SMB shares. In this article I am going to explain how you can mount SAMBA file system (SMBFS) permanently in Linux. Please note that this can be done whether the server is a Windows machine or a Samba server. Listing SMB Share Folder # smbclient –L IPAddress –U username.
8. Accessing an SMB Share With Linux Machines
Linux (UNIX) machines can also browse and mount SMB shares. Note that this can be done whether the server is a Windows machine or a Samba server!
An SMB client program for UNIX machines is included with the Samba distribution. It provides an ftp-like interface on the command line. You can use this utility to transfer files between a Windows 'server' and a Linux client.
Most Linux distributions also now include the useful smbfs package, which allows one to mount and umount SMB shares. More on smbfs below.
To see which shares are available on a given host, run:
where 'host' is the name of the machine that you wish to view. this will return a list of 'service' names - that is, names of drives or printers that it can share with you. Unless the SMB server has no security configured, it will ask you for a password. Get it the password for the 'guest' account or for your personal account on that machine.
For example:
The output of this command should look something like this:
The browse list shows other SMB servers with resources to share on the network.
To use the client, run:
where 'service' is a machine and share name. For example, if you are trying to reach a directory that has been shared as 'public' on a machine called zimmerman, the service would be called zimmermanpublic. However, due to shell restrictions, you will need to escape the backslashes, so you end up with something like this:
where 'mypasswd' is the literal string of your password.
You will get the smbclient prompt:
Type 'h' to get help using smbclient:
Samba Status_more_processing_required
If you can use ftp, you shouldn't need the man pages for smbclient.
Although you can use smbclient for testing, you will soon tire of it for real work. For that you will probably want to use the smbfs package. Smbfs comes with two simple utilties, smbmount and smbumount. They work just like mount and umount for SMB shares.
One important thing to note: You must have smbfs support compiled into your kernel to use these utilities!
The following shows a typical use of smbmount to mount an SMB share called 'customers' from a machine called 'samba1':
Issuing a mount command will now show the share mounted, just as if it were an NFS export:
Please see the manual pages for smbmount and smbumount for details on the above operation.
NextPreviousContentsSamba server is used as a Domain Controller as well as creating network share which can be used to transfer data between windows and Linux.
Prerequisites:
Make sure you have samba package in your machine
# rpm -qa | grep samba
samba-client-3.5.10-125.el6.i686
samba4-libs-4.0.0-23.alpha11.el6.i686
samba-common-3.5.10-125.el6.i686
samba-winbind-clients-3.5.10-125.el6.i686
samba-3.5.10-125.el6.i686
If the samba package is not there in your system then you can install it using
# yum -y install samba
To make a samba share accessible for any user# vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
(remove all the lines and make the following entry)
security = share
workgroup = EXAMPLE
hosts allow 127. 10.10.10. 192.168.0.
[profiles]
path = /profiles
share modes = yes
guest only = yes
browseable = yes
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
create mode = 0777
directory mode = 0777
Check your firewall and selinux settings settings as in my case I have disabled both.
You will have to restart your machine after making changes in selinux config file
# vi /etc/selinux/config
# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
# enforcing – SELinux security policy is enforced.
# permissive – SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
# disabled – No SELinux policy is loaded.
SELINUX=disabled
# SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values:
# targeted – Targeted processes are protected,
# mls – Multi Level Security protection.
SELINUXTYPE=targeted
Restart the samba server services
# service smb restart
# service nmb restart
Try to access your samba share using your windows client
In my case the server IP is10.10.10.19
To make a samba share accessible for predefined user (deepak)# vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
(remove all the lines and make the following entry)
security = user
workgroup = EXAMPLE
hosts allow 127. 10.10.10. 192.168.0.
[profiles]
path = /profiles
writable = yes
create mode = 0770
directory mode = 0770
share modes = yes
guest ok = no
valid users = deepak
# smbpasswd -a (username)
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
# service smb restart
# service nmb restart
Try to access your samba share using your windows client
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