Setting up samba with password protection
To easily share your files to linux and windows clients, samba is still the preferred choice. In this guide I will show how to setup a samba server on centos 5 machine, that can be accessed only by certain people protected by password.
- Install samba on the server
- # yum install samba
- Create the group that all the samba users will be contained in, for example 'samba'
- # groupadd samba
- Create samba users and add it to the above group, which is in this example is 'samba'. Below is the example to create a user named 'user1' and add it to group 'samba'. Set the password for user1
- # useradd user1 -g samba
- # passwd user1
- Create the directory to be shared. In this example, i will use /home/shared. Change the ownership to root and group ownership to the 'samba' group. Change permission so that only user and group can read write and execute
- # mkdir /home/shared
- # chown -R root.samba /home/shared
- # chmod -R 775 /home/shared
- Below is a simple setting of samba
- [global] workgroup = samba
server string = Samba Server
security = user [shared_folder]
comment = Sharing place
path = /home/shared
public = no
writable = yes
printable = no
write list = @samba
create mask = 0755
force create mode = 0755
directory mask = 0775
force directory mode = 0775 - What the above setting does basically is to setup /home/shared as samba shared directory but can only be accessed by user from group samba
- Add user/users to samba
- # smbpasswd -a user1
- Start smb service, restart if it has already been started
- # /etc/init.d/smb start
- 'user1' can now access the samba server using address 'smb://samba_server_ip_address/shared_folder' at any nautilus address bar. For windows client, you can see at your 'My Network Places' and find a workgroup named 'samba'
