Trying to set up a Samba file server.

TooLSHeD

TooLSHeD

Hi

I'm quite new to FreeBSD, I've got box that I'm trying to set up as a dedicated file storage server for my house. The clients are all Windows 7.

I've installed Samba35 from ports and I've been trying for the last few days to connect from a Win 7 machine. I've read up on every site imaginable and currently I'm running through the list on http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch12_:_Samba_Security_and_Troubleshooting.

Everything works up until point 6 when I have to run "net view \\samba-server" from the client, I get:
Code: 
PS C:\Users\Rael> net view \\SAMBA_SERVER
System error 5 has occurred.

Access is denied.

Can anyone please give me a reason as to why it fails?

Thanks
 
the answer is right there in front of you: permissions. Samba ain't good ol' Windows P2P-style networking where you can just turn it on and share things... to use Samba - you will need to create shares on the server and then grant access to users / groups or allow anonymous [on a home network -- you'd be ok with this] access.


If your box is publicly accessible -- you dont want to just allow everyone wholesale access -- you'll want to lock ti down a bit more...

My initial guess: you need to go into your Samba configuration and set it up to allow users on your local network access...

If you are new to Samba and windows/Unix networking -- you might want to install and run "SWAT" -- a web based tool to manage your Samba shares...
 
Trying to set up a Samba file server

Hello TooLSHeD,

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Cheers!
 
Hi

I pretty much solved the problem right after posting the message, I created a Samba user with smbpasswd -a and also set encrypt passwords to yes.

Every site? Did you read the official documentation?
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Yup, went through that too.

If your box is publicly accessible -- you dont want to just allow everyone wholesale access -- you'll want to lock ti down a bit more...
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I've set the allowable hosts in the conf file to only the few machines in our network. Is that enough?

Thanks
 
Easy way for you to manage Samba

FYI: you might want to look at installing "SWAT" -- it's a web-based interface to manage your Samba shares / Unix --:> Windows networking solution... in fact: SWAT stands for "Samba Web Administration Tool"

if you installed Samba from ports: you can simply rebuild Samba without killing your current installation by:

Code: 
cd /usr/ports/net/samba35
make rmconfig
make config

Pay close attention to the menu when you make config -- Make sure you check the option to install SWAT... Then you can re-install Samba 3.5:

[CMD=""]make install -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER"[/CMD]

;)
 
codeWarrior said:
Code: 
cd /usr/ports/net/samba35
make rmconfig
make config
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rmconfig is not necessary. It will reset all options to default, wiping out any changes the user had made previously.

Pay close attention to the menu when you make config -- Make sure you check the option to install SWAT... Then you can re-install Samba 3.5:

[CMD=""]make install -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER"[/CMD]
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make reinstall is less typing. But I'd suggest backing up the config files from /usr/local/etc/ and using
# make deinstall install
 
Hi

Thanks for all the help, I've got SWAT up and running already. Everything seems to be working well, but after I set up 3 drives as a raidz array, things are copying painfully slow. I'm just playing around with the zfs tuning.

Thanks
 
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