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glousteau
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Samba Share

Post by glousteau » 2022/08/12 15:54:42

I'm trying to build a Samba share on a CentOS VM I have running. I've unsuccessfully followed multiple online write-ups. The search in this forum keeps telling me to try searching again in a few minutes, but never runs???? is that broken?

Regardless, I'd like to create a basic samba file share so I can copy files from a Windows machine onto my CentOS 8 machine. I'm running this version of CentOS if that matters

Any help is appreciated.

[root@dot80 greg]# hostnamectl
Static hostname: dot80
Icon name: computer-vm
Chassis: vm
Machine ID: 1de6e2137dc444d188445bbc497c4f2e
Boot ID: 62bdf175870b46a8b2e454225f7dc99a
Virtualization: vmware
Operating System: CentOS Stream 8
CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8
Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-394.el8.x86_64
Architecture: x86-64
[root@dot80 greg]#

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Re: Samba Share

Post by TrevorH » 2022/08/12 16:23:52

The example /etc/samba/smb.conf file that gets installed when you yum install samba-common has examples in it that show how. The example example /etc/samba/smb.conf.example has even more examples and also instructions on how to set it up to work with selnux. You'll also need to yum install samba to install the server component and possibly need to systemctl start/enable the services.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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glousteau
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Re: Samba Share

Post by glousteau » 2022/08/12 20:02:12

Thanks for the reply. I'm going to need a more verbose how-to than your brief write-up below. Does anything exist of this nature?

thanks
Greg

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