Setting up Samba3.6.9 on Oracle Linux 6

This post is based on: http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Sharing_Files_between_RHEL_6_and_Windows_Systems_with_Samba. However, there're important configuration changes according to my experiment.
This article walks you through setting up Samba on Oracle Linux 6, and sets up anonymous access to Linux directory.

0. su

1. Check if Samba is installed on Linux

rpm -q samba

2. Install Samba

yum install samba

3. Make sure you Linux firewall does not block Samba

4. Configure smb.conf 

vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
[global]
workgroup = 

[tmp] --Resource name you'll be seeing on Windows
path = /tmp --Linux path
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
valid users = demo --User created in Samba to access this directory

4.1 Configure anonymous access and no need to enter username password

--smb.conf
[tmp]
path = /u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl
writeable = no
browseable = yes
public = yes
guest ok = yes

[global]
guest account = nobody
map to guest = bad user
--Create a user named nobody
smbpasswd -an nobody
This also creates a Linux account - nobody. Please  make sure nobody has access to " /u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl " in Linux, not only to orcl itself, also its parent directories.

5. Create user "demo"

smbpasswd -a demo

6. Testing Samba configuration

testparm

7. Starting Samba and NetBIOS Name Services on Linux

service smb start
service  nmb start

chkconfig smb on
chkconfig nmb on

To check status: 
service smb status
service  nmb status

8. Mount on Windows and Linux

Now, you've completed a basic Samba server setup on Linux. On Windows, click "Tools" -< "Map Network Driver", enter "\\odilab\online_log" for Folder, select a Drive, and click OK, you're all set.

On Oracle Linux, user can run the following command to look for shared resources from Samba server - 
smbclient -L odilab

smbclient \\\\odilab\\online_log work like ftp command.

To mount, you have two options: smbfs and cifs. Smbfs is deprecated. 
mount -t cifs -o guest //odilab/online_log /home/oracle/online_log
Unmount: umount /home/oracle/online_log