How to Install and configure samba share on CentOS8.1

How to Install and configure samba share on CentOS8.1

Introduction:

Samba is a tool which helps its users to share files and printer to SMB/CIFS clients from a Linux server/desktop, which you can even connect to a Windows Domain. This tutorial will show you the method on how to install samba on CentOS8

Installation process:

First install Samba4 and required packages from the default CentOS repositories using the yum package manager tool.

 linuxhelp user #yum  install samba -y

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libsmbclient libwbclient0 python-dnspython python-ldb python-samba python-tdb samba-common
…….
Setting up samba-common-bin (2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.12) ...
Setting up samba (2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.12) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu21) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Processing triggers for ufw (0.35-0ubuntu2) ...

You should now check the status of Samba service by running the following command.

linuxhelp user # systemctl status smbd
● smbd.service - LSB: start Samba SMB/CIFS daemon (smbd)
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/smbd  bad  vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-03-07 16:38:06 IST  27s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
   CGroup: /system.slice/smbd.service
           ├─15577 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
           ├─15580 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
           └─15583 /usr/sbin/smbd -D

Mar 07 16:38:05 linuxhelp systemd[1]: Starting LSB: start Samba SMB/CIFS daemon (smbd)...
Mar 07 16:38:06 linuxhelp smbd[15561]:  * Starting SMB/CIFS daemon smbd
Mar 07 16:38:06 linuxhelp smbd[15561]:    ...done.
Mar 07 16:38:06 linuxhelp systemd[1]: Started LSB: start Samba SMB/CIFS daemon (smbd).

Once its done, you need to run these commands to create a Directory.

Create two directries for share

linuxhelp user # mkdir /data
linuxhelp user # mkdir /value

In order to change ownership of file and directories to run the below commands.

linuxhelp user # chown   -R  shareuser /data
linuxhelp user # chown -R shareuser1 /value

And you need to create new user as follows.

linuxhelp user # adduser –system shareuser
linuxhelp user # adduser –system shareuser1

And add those users to Samba service

linuxhelp user # smbpasswd -a shareuser
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Added user user1.

Create password for another user

linuxhelp user # smbpasswd  -a shareuser1
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Added user user2.

Now, open Samba configuration file.

linuxhelp user # vim /etc/samba/smb.conf

And add the following line in the end of the file

[share1]
path = /data
valid users = shareuser
read list = shareuser
write list = shareuser
browsable = yes
invalid users = shareuser1
[share2]
path = /value
valid users = shareuser1
read list = shareuser1
write list = shareuser1
browsable = yes
invalid users = shareuser

linuxhelp user # ip a s
1: lo: < LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP>  mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: ens33: < BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP>  mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:0c:29:2c:09:18 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.7.235/24 brd 192.168.7.255 scope global ens33
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever