Linux Visibility on Microsoft Network

[Rick Stevens]

Wesa, Richard (GE Consumer & Industrial) wrote:
> Rick,
> Thanks for the quick response. I have attached smb.conf but I did not know how to attach
> it to the list which you were referring to.

This is the list (mailing list).  When I said "post it to the list", I
meant just include the text of the file inside your message.  Most
people on the list won't read attachments as they can contain virii.
However, I'll look at it.

(for the others on the list that won't open attachments, here's the
gist of what I'm going to speak about):

#===================== Share Definitions ==============================
[homes]
         comment = Home Directories
         browseable = no
         writeable = yes
         valid users = %S
         create mode = 0664
         directory mode = 0775
# If you want users samba doesn't recognize to be mapped to a guest user
; map to guest = bad user


# Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain 
Logons
; [netlogon]
;   comment = Network Logon Service
;   path = /usr/local/samba/lib/netlogon
;   guest ok = yes
;   writable = no
;   share modes = no


# Un-comment the following to provide a specific roving profile share
# the default is to use the user's home directory
;[Profiles]
;    path = /usr/local/samba/profiles
;    browseable = no
;    guest ok = yes


# NOTE: If you have a BSD-style print system there is no need to
# specifically define each individual printer
[printers]
         comment = All Printers
         path = /var/spool/samba
         browseable = no
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
         printable = yes

# This one is useful for people to share files
;[tmp]
;   comment = Temporary file space
;   path = /tmp
;   read only = no
;   public = yes

# A publicly accessible directory, but read only, except for people in
# the "staff" group
;[public]
;   comment = Public Stuff
;   path = /home/samba
;   public = yes
;   writable = yes
;   printable = no
;   write list = @staff

# Other examples.
#
# A private printer, usable only by fred. Spool data will be placed in 
fred's
# home directory. Note that fred must have write access to the spool 
directory,
# wherever it is.
;[fredsprn]
;   comment = Fred's Printer
;   valid users = fred
;   path = /home/fred
;   printer = freds_printer
;   public = no
;   writable = no
;   printable = yes

# A private directory, usable only by fred. Note that fred requires write
# access to the directory.
;[fredsdir]
;   comment = Fred's Service
;   path = /usr/somewhere/private
;   valid users = fred
;   public = no
;   writable = yes
;   printable = no

# a service which has a different directory for each machine that connects
# this allows you to tailor configurations to incoming machines. You could
# also use the %U option to tailor it by user name.
# The %m gets replaced with the machine name that is connecting.
;[pchome]
;  comment = PC Directories
;  path = /usr/local/pc/%m
;  public = no
;  writable = yes

# A publicly accessible directory, read/write to all users. Note that 
all files
# created in the directory by users will be owned by the default user, so
# any user with access can delete any other user's files. Obviously this
# directory must be writable by the default user. Another user could of 
course
# be specified, in which case all files would be owned by that user instead.
;[public]
;   path = /usr/somewhere/else/public
;   public = yes
;   only guest = yes
;   writable = yes
;   printable = no

# The following two entries demonstrate how to share a directory so that two
# users can place files there that will be owned by the specific users. 
In this
# setup, the directory should be writable by both users and should have the
# sticky bit set on it to prevent abuse. Obviously this could be extended to
# as many users as required.
;[myshare]
;   comment = Mary's and Fred's stuff
;   path = /usr/somewhere/shared
;   valid users = mary fred
;   public = no
;   writable = yes
;   printable = no
;   create mask = 0765

[root]
         path = /root


Ok.  I've looked at it.  There are a number of things that are going
to prevent you from seeing any shares.

There are two sections that are live, "homes", "printers" and "root".
You won't be able to see anything in "homes" as it is not browseable and
since you are probably connecting as a user on the Windows side that is
unknown on the Linux side, you can't access it anyway as the allowed
users ("valid users = %S") are limited to users that have accounts on
the Linux machine itself.

I won't deal with "printers" here, unless you actually need Windows
access to a Linux printer.

As for "root", you've set up just a path for that, but you've provided
no other access information for it.

How to fix?  Well, that rather depends on what you want to do.  If you
can be a bit more specific about what you're trying to do, perhaps we
can help.

You may also want to enable "swat" on the Linux machine.  It is a GUI
tool that helps you configure Samba.  To turn it on, edit your
"/etc/services" file and make sure there is a line that looks like
this:

	swat      901/tcp         # Samba Web Administration Tool

in it and that there's no leading "#" on the line.  Then either edit
the /etc/xinetd.d/swat file and change the "disable = yes" line to
"disable = no" and "kill -HUP `pidof xinetd`" (yes, those are backticks)
or simply run swat from the command line: "swat &".  Then use the web
browser on the Linux machine and access "http://localhost:901" and you
should see the swat configuration screen.
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