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