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This guide explains how to configure samba server in CentOS 6.5 with anonymous & secured samba servers. Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. Samba is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients.
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This step is missing in this guide..
chcon -R -t samba_share_t /samba/anonymous/
Yet easy to understand excellent guide
Thanks! Hours trying to figure out why mine is not working.
Just had to disable SELINUX.
For CentOS 6.6 I was unable to get this to work. I've disabled SELinux and IPTables to reduce variables. Windows can't even see a file I put in the share.
My mistake was I created the directory to be shared at /etc/samba/anonymous and not /samba/anonymous
For Step 2, to make a copy of the orginal config file shouldn't the command be cp /etc/samba/smb.cnf /etc/samba/smb.cnf.bak
Using the mv command as stated will simpily just rename the file.
No, it should not be cp here. The reason to use mv is to get a backup plus remove the file as we want to start with an empty file.
So if you would use cp instead of MV then you would have to run one more command to get the desired result:
cp /etc/samba/smb.cnf /etc/samba/smb.cnf.bak
cat /dev/null > /etc/samba/smb.cnf
smb.cnf or smb.conf