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| + | The basic samba configuration file is located at ''/etc/samba/smb.conf''. Browse it and you will see that a basic configuration is available. The ''/tmp'' and ''/home/default'' folders are exported for the ''default'' user (no password) and therefore you can mount them by using the smbmount command on your Linux PC as before: | ||
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| + | smbmount //APF9328/tmp /mnt/apf -o username=default,password= | ||
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* http://www.samba.org/ | * http://www.samba.org/ | ||
Revision as of 14:43, 16 February 2007
Instructions to install and use Samba with Armadeus
Contents
Introduction
Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that has, since 1992, provided file and print services to all manner of SMB/CIFS clients, including the numerous versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems
This page will summarize the process to build, install basic samba services such as
- Mounting windows shares
- Sharing folders for Windows computers
Kernel configuration
First, you must have a right kernel configuration to enable the usage of SAMBA :
- You must have a networking support (trivial).......
- "File systems->Network File Systems->SMB file system support" is enabled
- "File systems->Network File Systems->SMB file system->Use a default NLS" is enabled
- "withs Default Remote NLS Option = cp437"
- "File systems->Network File Systems->CIFS support" is enabled
- "File systems->Network File Systems->Native Language Support"
- Codepage 437 (United States, Canada)
- Codepage 850 (Europe)
- NLS ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1; Western European Languages)
- NLS ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1; Western European Languages) (this is optional)
Note that in some cases NLS default cp437 can be changed in samba configuration.
To do this you must have the smbmount command. Enable it into your buildroot configuration. Additionally the util-linux package is necessary: you must enable it into your buildroot configuration too. After that, you can mount a windows share by using the following command:
smbmount //hostname/SMBshare /mnt/smb -o username=freddys,password=fredspass
Or by using the ip address
smbmount //192.168.1.2/SMBshare /mnt/win -o username=freddys,password=fredspass
Sharing folders
To share folders for windows, you must enable the nmbd & smbd commands into your buildroot configuration. Optionally you may install the /etc/init.d start script. The basic samba configuration file is located at /etc/samba/smb.conf. Browse it and you will see that a basic configuration is available. The /tmp and /home/default folders are exported for the default user (no password) and therefore you can mount them by using the smbmount command on your Linux PC as before:
smbmount //APF9328/tmp /mnt/apf -o username=default,password=
The smbpasswd command
Typical problem
- smbmount errors :
Because smbmount is using the mount command, make shure you are not using the mount command of the busybox! --> enable package "util-linux" in your buildroot configuration and install the new file system
- mount does not complete or Input/output errors:
- Verify that /etc/mtab is not a symbolic link to /proc/mounts. If it is, erase /etc/mtab and reboot. Linux will create a correct /etc/mtab
- Are you shure that your mount point has correct access rights?
Links
The complete (and very big!!) documentation can be found here:
