Quick and Dirty Samba

1. Install Samba and Swat
2. Configure for the Workgroup
3. Add user
4. Create a backup of some files on one system to another via samba 
5. Uninstall Samba and Swat

Install Samba and Swat

Winslow was loaded with a custom RedHat 7.2 using the bootnet.img boot disk and selecting the following options:

1. Get samba here:  
2. [vanboers@winslow RPMS]$ ncftp ftp.redhat.com
   ncftp / > bin
   ncftp / > cd pub/redhat/redhat-7.2-en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS
   ncftp ...en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS > bin
   ncftp ...en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS > mget samba*
   samba-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm samba-client-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm samba-common-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm samba-swat-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm
3. Install Samba
4. [root@winslow tmp]# rpm -ivh samba-*
   Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
   1:samba-common ########################################### [ 25%]
   2:samba ########################################### [ 50%]
   3:samba-client ########################################### [ 75%]
   4:samba-swat ########################################### [100%]
5. Enable Swat
6. [root@winslow xinetd.d]# cat /etc/xinetd.d/swat | sed '/disable = yes/s//disable = no/g' > /tmp/tmp.txt && mv /tmp/tmp.txt /etc/xinetd.d/swat
   mv: overwrite `/etc/xinetd.d/swat'? y
   *Note:  The space between 'disable' and '=' is 2 tab characters
7. [root@winslow xinetd.d]# /etc/init.d/xinetd restart

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Configure for the Workgroup

This assumes you've installed XWindows on the machine you are configuring for Samba and have installed a web browser such as Netscape 4.7x:

1. Navigate to the following URL:  http://localhost:901/globals
2. Fill in the WORKGROUP name with the name of the workgroup the Samba server is joining
3. Put a useful NETBIOS name (can be different from the hostname of the Linux box)
4. Click Commit Changes
5. Navigate to the following URL:  http://localhost:901/status
6. Click restart smbd
7. Click restart nmbd

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Add a User

1. Navigate to the following URL:  http://localhost:901/passwd
2. In the Server Password Management section type in the username of the user you wish to add and key in the masked password value in the 2 boxes below it.

Samba should now be visible and accessible to the user(s) you created above in step 9.  You might want to open Network Neighborhood on a Windows client and see if you can see the Samba server and manipulate files in its share.   

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Create a backup of some files on one system to another via samba

Need to determine what files are involved and src/dest for backups.  I.e. it would be nice to have NT machine with a tape drive attached for the destination...

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Uninstall Samba and Swat

It's not a good idea to have Swat running on a production server.

1. [root@winslow xinetd.d]# cat /etc/xinetd.d/swat | sed '/disable = no/s//disable = yes/g' > /tmp/tmp.txt && mv /tmp/tmp.txt /etc/xinetd.d/swat
   mv: overwrite `/etc/xinetd.d/swat'? y
   *Note:  The space between 'disable' and '=' is 2 tab characters
2. [root@winslow samba]# /etc/init.d/xinetd restart
3. [root@winslow samba]# rpm -e samba-swat-2.2.1a-4
   warning: /etc/xinetd.d/swat saved as /etc/xinetd.d/swat.rpmsave

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