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Quick and Dirty Samba

  1. Install Samba and Swat
  2. Configure for the Workgroup
  3. Add user
  4. Create a backup of some files on one system to another via samba 
  5. Uninstall Samba and Swat

Install Samba and Swat

Winslow was loaded with a custom RedHat 7.2 using the bootnet.img boot disk and selecting the following options:

  1. Get samba here:  
  2. [vanboers@winslow RPMS]$ ncftp ftp.redhat.com
    ncftp / > bin
    ncftp / > cd pub/redhat/redhat-7.2-en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS
    ncftp ...en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS > bin
    ncftp ...en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS > mget samba*
    samba-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm samba-client-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm samba-common-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm samba-swat-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm
  3. Install Samba
  4. [root@winslow tmp]# rpm -ivh samba-*
    Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
    1:samba-common ########################################### [ 25%]
    2:samba ########################################### [ 50%]
    3:samba-client ########################################### [ 75%]
    4:samba-swat ########################################### [100%]
  5. Enable Swat
  6. [root@winslow xinetd.d]# cat /etc/xinetd.d/swat | sed '/disable = yes/s//disable = no/g' > /tmp/tmp.txt && mv /tmp/tmp.txt /etc/xinetd.d/swat
    mv: overwrite `/etc/xinetd.d/swat'? y
    *Note:  The space between 'disable' and '=' is 2 tab characters
  7. [root@winslow xinetd.d]# /etc/init.d/xinetd restart
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Configure for the Workgroup

This assumes you've installed XWindows on the machine you are configuring for Samba and have installed a web browser such as Netscape 4.7x:

  1. Navigate to the following URL:  http://localhost:901/globals
  2. Fill in the WORKGROUP name with the name of the workgroup the Samba server is joining
  3. Put a useful NETBIOS name (can be different from the hostname of the Linux box)
  4. Click Commit Changes
  5. Navigate to the following URL:  http://localhost:901/status
  6. Click restart smbd
  7. Click restart nmbd
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Add a User

  1. Navigate to the following URL:  http://localhost:901/passwd
  2. In the Server Password Management section type in the username of the user you wish to add and key in the masked password value in the 2 boxes below it.
Samba should now be visible and accessible to the user(s) you created above in step 9.  You might want to open Network Neighborhood on a Windows client and see if you can see the Samba server and manipulate files in its share.   
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Create a backup of some files on one system to another via samba

Need to determine what files are involved and src/dest for backups.  I.e. it would be nice to have NT machine with a tape drive attached for the destination...

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Uninstall Samba and Swat

It's not a good idea to have Swat running on a production server.

  1. [root@winslow xinetd.d]# cat /etc/xinetd.d/swat | sed '/disable = no/s//disable = yes/g' > /tmp/tmp.txt && mv /tmp/tmp.txt /etc/xinetd.d/swat
    mv: overwrite `/etc/xinetd.d/swat'? y
    *Note:  The space between 'disable' and '=' is 2 tab characters
  2. [root@winslow samba]# /etc/init.d/xinetd restart
  3. [root@winslow samba]# rpm -e samba-swat-2.2.1a-4
    warning: /etc/xinetd.d/swat saved as /etc/xinetd.d/swat.rpmsave
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