| Samba Tutorial |
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| Written by macsat | |
| Thursday, 24 November 2005 | |
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The Tutorial is made using a ASUS WL-500G Deluxe (or WL-500GX and WL-500GD as it is sometimes called). It should however apply to all "OpenWRT Compatible" devices, even though some details like hardware addresses, storage locations and so on could differ if you use other hardware. Check out the General OpenWRT Tutorial Information page for more information. This Tutorial aims at giving all users on the network a shared drive where they can Read and Write files, using the Linux implementation of Windows Networking - called Samba. Samba offers a LOT of options, like shares owned by single users, groups of users and so on. It also offers printing capabilities through the linux printing system called Cups. All of this is however out of the scope of this Tutorial. Users that wish to use more advanced features can consult the Official Samba homepage or take a look at some of the Samba/SMB howtos at The Linux Documentation Project homepage. Tutorial Index1. Prerequisites - What is needed to get started.2. Installing and Configuring Samba PrerequisitesAll you need is :The tutorial is based on you having mounted the external storage on /opt ! Installing and Configuring Samba You should download the samba version from my downloads page: While nico does have one in his testing repository, it has a bug that triggers the following in the samba server log: kern.err smbd[11661]: Invalid packet length! (65600 bytes). On the windows side you will get errors like: Delayed Write Failed This bug is fixed in the version available from my downloads section, so I really recommend that you get that one. It will increase both stability and performance of your samba compared to the buggy one. After downloading to somewhere (/tmp might be a good idea), do this : ipkg install ./samba_2.0.10-1_mipsel.ipk Configuring is done easily by creating the file /etc/samba/smb.conf. An example of a (simple) working config file could be: workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = OpenWRT Samba Server wins support = no dns proxy = no name resolve order = lmhosts hosts bcast log file = /opt/var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 syslog = 0 security = share encrypt passwords = true obey pam restrictions = yes guest account = nobody passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u load printers = no [SambaShare] comment = /opt/samba path = /opt/samba browseable = yes public = yes guest ok = yes writeable = yes Now create the shared directory you defined in the config file, and make it writable by everyone. mkdir -p /opt/samba chmod 777 /opt/samba Now create a startup file called /etc/init.d/S50samba Mine looks like: #!/bin/sh Dont forget to make the file executable :case $1 in start) nmbd -D smbd -D ;; stop) killall nmbd killall smbd ;; *) echo "usage: $0 (start|stop)" exit 1 esac exit $? chmod +x /etc/init.d/S50samba Now you can try to start your samba server: ps |grep "mbd" If your Samba server is running, this should give you something like: 2170 root 908 S nmbd -D 2172 root 924 S smbd -D 2176 root 316 S grep mbd Now you should be able to browse your share called "SambaShare" from any computer that is a member of "WORKGROUP" (the default workgroup name in Windows). All users are able to both read and write on the share, since users all use the "nobody" account.
I hope you found this tutorial useful. Comments and questions are welcome at the Support Forum
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