Configuration
/etc/samba/smb.conf You knew it. Only security and [homes] are not default, the others are default. In this configuration, all the \\server\\username can be accessed.
[global] workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu) dns proxy = no log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 syslog = 0 panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d security = user encrypt passwords = true passdb backend = tdbsam obey pam restrictions = yes unix password sync = yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . pam password change = yes map to guest = bad user [homes] comment = %U Home Directories browseable = Yes read only = no create mask = 0660 directory mask = 0700 valid users = %SFor other user(not the user created during the OS installation but created with user add)
We still need to sudo smbpasswd -a <username>
Could we use unix user dirctly?
Show smbpwd users
$ sudo pdbedit -Lw
Test samba
Linux command line
smbclient -L <IP> -U guest -N #list
smbclient -L <IP> -U <username> #list
smbclient \\<IP>\<username> -U <username> # login
Mount for current user
sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
sudo mount.cifs -o username=<samba username>,uid=${USER} //<samba server>/directory/ /<local directory>
Windows
You may get 'Multiple connections' or 'disconnect previous connections' error in windows
rem list the connections
net use
rem remove all the connections
net use * /delete
usershare
Allow non-root/sudoers to create shares