Setting up a Samba Server on Caldera OpenLinux

Jeff Christensen

1. Setting up the Samba Server

1. Change to the /etc/samba.d directory.
2. Copy the smb.conf.sample file to smb.conf.

cp smb.conf.sample smb.conf

3. Edit the smb.conf file and change the workgroup entry to match the work group on the Windows machines that will access the Samba server.
4. If you are using Windows 95 OEM Rev B, Windows 98, or Windows NT with Service Pack 3, remove the semicolon in front of the following two lines, otherwise leave them commented out as earlier versions of Windows do not have encrypted passwords.

encrypt passwords = yes smbpasswd file = /etc/samba.d/smbpasswd

5. Save the changes made to the smb.conf file.
6. While still in the /etc/samba.d directory create a samba password file:

mksmbpasswd < /etc/passwd > smbpasswd

7. The smbpasswd file contains all of the users on your Linux system.
8. To add users to the list of those who can access the OpenLinux system using Samba, use this command:

smbadduser Linux-username:Samba-username

9. Next, create a "Public" directory in each user's home directory that is owned by that user.
1. Change to the user's home directory.
2. Create the "Public" directory (note the capital P).

mkdir Public

3. Change the owner of the Public directory.

chown owner Public

10. Create a public directory that all Samba users can access.

mkdir /home/public

11. Next start Samba (must be logged in as root)

/etc/rc.d/init.d/samba start

2. Synchronize the Samba and OpenLinux passwords

1. Samba can be setup to synchronize the Samba and OpenLinux passwords so that when a user changes their password the change will affect both Samba and OpenLinux.
2. This will only work with the encrypted passwords set to yes.
3. Remove the semicolon in front of the following lines:

unix password sync = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*

4. Stop and restart Samba.

/etc/rc.d/init.d/samba stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/samba start

3. Setup a raw printer device hosted on the Samba server

1. A raw printer is a printer setup in Samba that will allow the use of Windows printer drivers as opposed to the postscript printer device.
2. To setup a raw printer, you will first need to create the printer using coas or lisa.
3. It does not matter which printer you select to install, because no filters will be used in setting up the raw printer device.
4. After you have installed the printer, go into "/etc" and edit the printcap entry you just created, changing it to look like this (if you named it something other than raw, the entry name and spool directory should be changed here to match):

raw:\ :rw:sh: :lp=/dev/lp1 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/raw :fx=flp

5. Next edit your /etc/samba.d/smb.conf file, locate the [printers] section and add the following line:

print command = lpr -b -P%p %s

6. Save the changes to /etc/samba.d/smb.conf and start and stop the samba and lpd demons as root.

/etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd start /etc/rc.d/init.d/samba stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/samba start