Linux Tutorials on the topic “samba”
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How to Install Samba Server on CentOS 8
Author: Hitesh Jethva • Tags: centos, linux, samba • Comments: 4Samba is a free and open-source software that can be used to share files, folders, and printers between Linux and Windows systems. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Samba and configure it as a standalone sharing server on CentOS 8.
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Samba Server installation on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: linux, samba, ubuntu •
Comments: 35 This guide explains the installation and configuration of a Samba server on Ubuntu 16.04 with anonymous and secured Samba shares. 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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Samba Server Installation and Configuration on CentOS 7
Author: howtoforge •
Tags: centos, linux, samba, storage •
Comments: 83 This guide explains how to configure samba server on CentOS 7 with anonymous and secured samba shares. 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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Samba Standalone Server Installation on Debian 9 (Stretch)
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: debian, samba, storage •
Comments: 6 This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Debian 9 and shows you how to configure Samba to share files over the SMB/CIFS the protocol. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory, all users have a shared group directory with read-/write access and optionally an anonymous share is added.
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Samba 4 Additional Domain Controller for failover Replication on CentOS 7
Author: iron_michael86 •
Tags: centos, linux, samba, server •
Comments: 11 In this tutorial, I will show you how to configure an additional domain controller which is one of the key features of SAMBA 4. This setup provides a degree of load balancing and failover for AD services (Ldap schemas and dns ) and configuring it is really easy. We can also use this feature to scale up the environment.
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Samba 4 with Active Directory on CentOS 7 rpm based installation with share support
Author: iron_michael86 •
Tags: centos, linux, samba •
Comments: 18 This tutorial shows how to install Samba 4 with Active Directory support on CentOS 7 with precompiled packages from Wing repository and SELinux enabled.
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Samba 4 Domain Controller Installation on CentOS 7
Author: iron_michael86 •
Tags: centos, linux, samba, server •
Comments: 28 Starting from version 4.0, Samba is able to run as an Active Directory (AD) domain controller (DC). In this tutorial, I will show you how to configure Samba 4 as a domain controller with Windows 10, CentOS 7 and CentOS 6 clients.
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Samba Server installation on Ubuntu 15.10
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: linux, samba, ubuntu •
Comments: 11 This guide explains the installation and configuration of a Samba server on Ubuntu 15.10 with anonymous and secured Samba shares. 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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Samba Server Installation on Debian 8 (Jessie)
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: debian, samba, storage •
Comments: 22 This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Debian 8 and shows you how to configure Samba to share files over the SMB/CIFS the protocol. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory, all users have a shared group directory with read-/write access and optionally an anonymous share is added.
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Build your own NAS with OpenMediaVault
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: debian, ftp, linux, networking, samba, server •
Comments: 24 OpenMediaVault is a Debian based special purpose Linux Distribution to build a Network Attached Storage (NAS) System. It provides an easy to use web-based interface, Multilanguage support, Volume Management, Monitoring and a plugin system to extend it with LDAP, Bittorrent, and iSCSI capabilities. This tutorial describes the installation and configuration of OpenMediaVault.
What is Samba?
Samba was originally developed in 1992 by Andrew Trigell as a part of a PhD project that ended up being a fully functional and open source (GPL 3.0) re-implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol. What this basically means is that Samba is the software suite that allows the connection and interaction of Unix, Linux, IBM, OSX, Solaris and BSD systems with Microsoft Windows clients or servers. This interaction includes the activities of file browsing as well as printing services. Being an important free software project that greatly adds to the interoperability of Linux systems and basically raises their usability value, Samba is nowadays found installed out of the box in every popular Linux distribution.
To make the communication between Windows and Unix-based computers seamless, Samba utilizes a rich set of services and protocols. Some of those are the NetBIOS over TCP/IP, the SMB (Server Message Block), CIFS, Microsoft RPC, NT Domain, SAM (Security Accounts Manager), LSA (Local Security Authority, NTLM and DFS (Distributed File System). Some of these protocols were developed based on reverse engineering methods but still Samba's functionality remains at top level. From 2013 (version 4.1), Samba supports the latest version 3 of the Server Message Block available in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. The fact that Samba is so up to date ensures its continuous delivery of flexibility to network administrators around the globe.
HowtoForge and Samba
HowtoForge has dozens of Samba-related tutorials that guide users to step by step installation of configuration of the popular server software. From complete how-tos that concern feature-rich distributions (Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu, Debian), to highly specialized Samba implementations on limited hardware such as the Raspberry Pi, on HowToForge you will find anything you need. For more specific questions that may not be found in the posts though, you can always visit our forums and seek for the expert advice of the community.