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Set up a Samba server

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Set up a Samba server

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- [Instructor] In order to provide a Samba share on our server, which other clients can connect to, we'll need to install some software. In particular, the Samba, Samba-client, and Samba-common packages. They should be available from your distro's repository. To get a Samba server setup, we'll take these steps. We'll install Samba, and then we'll explore the configuration file, and make changes. We'll create passwords for users, and we'll ensure access to the share with SELinux, and firewall settings. Here on my CentOS machine, I'll type sudo yum install samba samba-client samba-common. When the software is installed, it's time to configure it. The etc/samba/smb.conf file holds the settings for the Samba server. Let's open it up with sudo vi /etc/samba/smb.conf. Depending on the version, and the platform that you're using, this file can be short, or it can be a few hundred lines long, which means this is a great time to recap how to move around in Vim. Control + f, and control + b…

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