Building Blocks - Administration

Tired of paying hundreds of dollars for commercial file serversoftware? Looking for an application that lets you share *NIX andWindows files seamlessly across a network? Say hello to Samba, softwarethat's so cool, it'll make you want to kick up your heels and dance,dance, dance!

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By: icarus, (c) Melonfire

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October 02, 2002

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The first order of business to install Samba on the Linux box you plan to use as a server. Drop by the official Samba Web site at http://www.samba.org/ and get yourself the latest stable release of the software (this tutorial uses Samba 2.2.5).

Once you've downloaded the source code archive to your Linux server (mine is named "olympus.melonfire.com"), log in as "root"

$ su -
Password: ****

and extract the source to a temporary directory.

$ cd /tmp
$ tar -xzvf  /home/me/samba-2.2.5.tar-gz

Next, configure the package using the provided "configure" script,

$ cd /tmp/samba-2.2.5
$ ./configure

and compile and install it.

$ make
$ make install

Unless you specified a different path to the "configure" script, Samba will have been installed to the directory "/usr/local/samba".

You can verify this by doing a quick directory scan of that directory - here's what you should see.

$ ls -l /usr/local/samba
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep 17 17:31 bin
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Sep 17 18:43 lib
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 Sep 17 17:24 man
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep 17 17:31 private
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 Sep 17 17:24 swat
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Sep 18 12:01 var

Once you've got Samba installed, the next step is to configure it to work for your system. Let's look at that next.

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