OpenSUSE 11.4 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on OpenSUSE 11.4 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

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Samba 3.6.0 Approaching: Second Release Candidate Now Available

A second release candidate means that Samba 3.6 could be weeks or months away. 3.6.0 will see the first full featured implementation of SMB2 but it will be turned off by default...

A second release candidate means that Samba 3.6 could be weeks or months away. 3.6.0 will see the first full featured implementation of SMB2 but it will be turned off by default

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Fedora 14 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Fedora 14 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

I'm using a Fedora 14 system here with the hostname server1.example.com and the IP address 192.168.0.100.

Please make sure that SELinux is disabled as shown in chapter 5 of this tutorial: The Perfect Server - Fedora 14 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2] - Page 3

Connect to your server on the shell and install the Samba packages:

yum install cups-libs samba samba-common

Edit the smb.conf file:

vi /etc/samba/smb.conf

Make sure you see the following lines in the [global] section:

[...]# ----------------------- Standalone Server Options ------------------------## security = the mode Samba runs in. This can be set to user, share# (deprecated), or server (deprecated).## passdb backend = the backend used to store user information in. New# installations should use either tdbsam or ldapsam. No additional configuration# is required for tdbsam. The "smbpasswd" utility is available for backwards# compatibility.# security = user passdb backend = tdbsam[...]

This enables Linux system users to log in to the Samba server.

Then create the system startup links for Samba and start it:

chkconfig --levels 235 smb on
/etc/init.d/smb start

Now I will add a share that is accessible by all users.

Create the directory for sharing the files and change the group to the users group:

mkdir -p /home/shares/allusers
chown -R root:users /home/shares/allusers/
chmod -R ug+rwx,o+rx-w /home/shares/allusers/

At the end of the file /etc/samba/smb.conf add the following lines:

vi /etc/samba/smb.conf

[...][allusers] comment = All Users path = /home/shares/allusers valid users = @users force group = users create mask = 0660 directory mask = 0771 writable = yes

If you want all users to be able to read and write to their home directories via Samba, add the following lines to /etc/samba/smb.conf (make sure you comment out or remove the other [homes] section in the smb.conf file!):

[...][homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no valid users = %S writable = yes create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700

Now we restart Samba:

/etc/init.d/smb restart

In this example, I will add a user named tom. You can add as many users as you need in the same way, just replace the username tom with the desired username in the commands.

useradd tom -m -G users

Set a password for tom in the Linux system user database. If the user tom should not be able to log into the Linux system, skip this step.

passwd tom

-> Enter the password for the new user.

Now add the user to the Samba user database:

smbpasswd -a tom

-> Enter the password for the new user.

Now you should be able to log in from your Windows workstation with the file explorer (address is \\192.168.0.100 or \\192.168.0.100\tom for tom's home directory) using the username tom and the chosen password and store files on the Linux server either in tom's home directory or in the public shared directory.

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Ubuntu 10.10 LAN Torrent Seedbox With Avalanche-rt, Lighttpd, Rtorrent, Vsftpd And Samba

This tutorial is based on a LAN setup, but it should also be applicable for an Internet seedbox (e.g. on a vps or rootds), but some additional steps may need to be performed (firewall, securing rpc-mount, generally hardening of the server).

The best lightweight software combination for a seedbox is lighttpd with rtorrent/libtorrent and a nifty web interface. So we use avalanche-rt, an actively developed project which looks very promising.

First step is to install the distribution of your choice on your box. Use a minimal installation if possible. The rest of the steps are Ubuntu specific.

At the end of the installation choose the ssh-server as additional service which should be installed.

After the reboot, first thing we need to do, is to connect to the Internet (if not already).

If you, like me, use a laptop as your server, you may want or need to use a wireless connection to connect to the Internet. You can do this without a graphical interface with the neat tool wicd-curses, an ncurses frontend for wicd.

Get it with (obviously you need to be connected to the Internet to perform this step, so in most cases you need a wired connection for at least this step):

sudo apt-get install wicd-ncurses

Afterwards, you may have to manually start the wicd-daemon:

sudo /etc/init.d/wicd start

Then you should be able to use wicd-curses and connect to your wireless network. If you are connected, perform a system update:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Next, we install some software which makes live a bit more easy:

sudo apt-get install htop mc pydf

htop lets you check you system, mc comes in kind handy when handling a lot of files and pydf gives you nice overview over the space left on your harddrive.

Let’s set up the seedbox:

First step is to install lighttpd and php:

sudo apt-get install lighttpd php5-cgi php5-curl

Then we create a file to test if php is working:

sudo nano /var/www/phpinfo.php

Fill it with:

If you now go to

/phpinfo.php

you will just see a 403 (Forbidden) error

So we have to set up php to work with lighttpd:

sudo nano /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini

Search (strg + w)) for

cgi.fix_pathinfo

and uncomment the line. Save and exit (strg + x).

Next, we configure lighttpd to use php5. Open lighttpd.conf...

sudo nano /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

and add to the

server.modules

section (right at the beginning of the file)

"mod_fastcgi"

and at the end of the file the following:

fastcgi.server = ( ".php" => (( "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php5-cgi", "socket" => "/tmp/php.socket" )))

Then restart lighttpd:

sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd restart

If we now go to

/phpinfo.php

you should see some information about php.

Now we install more rtorrent and other needed software:

sudo apt-get install screen libtorrent11 rtorrent

Get the default-config for rtorrent (we're in our home-directory now):

wget "http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/export/1135/trunk/rtorrent/doc/rtorrent.rc"

and move it to the right location:

mv rtorrent.rc .rtorrent.rc

Create needed folders:

mkdir downloads
mkdir .session
mkdir torrents-watch
mkdir torrent-files

Next, edit .rtorrent.rc:

nano .rtorrent.rc

Look for

directory =

and uncomment it and change it to your needs (in our case: directory = /home/downloads/).

Next, search for

session

and uncomment it and change it to your needs (in our case: session = /home/.session/).

Go to the end of .rtorrent.rc an insert the following:

#SCGI Serverscgi_port = 127.0.0.1:5001

Save & exit nano (strg + x).

Now we can start rtorrent and check if scgi support is enabled:

rtorrent

You should see something like

"XMPLRPC initialized with 519 functions."

Next step is to enable RPC with lighttpd:

sudo nano /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

Add to the

server.modules

section the following:

"mod_scgi"

and at the end of the file the following:

#SCGI Serverscgi.server = ("/RPC2" =>( "127.0.0.1" => ("host" => "127.0.0.1","port" => 5001,"check-local" => "disable")))

and reload lighttpd:

sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd restart

Because this is a LAN setup, we do not protect the RPC-mount with a username / password combination. You will find it on almost every other tutorial out there and you really should protect the RPC-mount-directory with a strong password if you intend to use your seedbox on a server exposed to the Internet. But in our case it is not necessary and just an additional point of failure.

So we now have rtorrent with xmlrpc enabled, and lighttpd with xmlrpc enabled. Now we need the avalanche-rt web interface.

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