Samba Installation
Install Samba and the required services.
apt-get install samba
Stop the samba service
service smbd stop
First we will create a samba user and set a password for Windows users to authenticate. If we want multiple users we can repeat this process.
adduser --disabled-login suser sudo smbpasswd -a suser
Now we will create a group to assign to the various shares we are going to create for admin access (read write)
groupadd -g 10000 smbaadmins
We now need to add the users into this group.
usermod -a -G smbadmins smbadmin
We can also add sysadmin to this group to give it samba RW permissions
usermod -a -G smbadmins sysadmin
Now we need to create the share directory and set its permissions.
chown -R smbadmin:smbadmins /path/to/your/share
Change the file permissions
chmod -R 2775 /path/to/your/share
This will set the group sticky bit so that new files / folder will inherit group permissions.
Modify smb.conf
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
# # Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux. # # # This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the # smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed # here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options most of which # are not shown in this example # # Some options that are often worth tuning have been included as # commented-out examples in this file. # - When such options are commented with ";", the proposed setting # differs from the default Samba behaviour # - When commented with "#", the proposed setting is the default # behaviour of Samba but the option is considered important # enough to be mentioned here # # NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command # "testparm" to check that you have not made any basic syntactic # errors. #======================= Global Settings ======================= [global] ## Browsing/Identification ### # Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of workgroup = SCOTTWORLD # server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu) netbios name = solaris # Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section: # WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server # wins support = no # WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client # Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both # This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS. dns proxy = no #### Networking #### # The specific set of interfaces / networks to bind to # This can be either the interface name or an IP address/netmask; # interface names are normally preferred ; interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 eth0 # Only bind to the named interfaces and/or networks; you must use the # 'interfaces' option above to use this. # It is recommended that you enable this feature if your Samba machine is # not protected by a firewall or is a firewall itself. However, this # option cannot handle dynamic or non-broadcast interfaces correctly. ; bind interfaces only = yes #### Debugging/Accounting #### # This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine # that connects log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m # Cap the size of the individual log files (in KiB). max log size = 1000 # We want Samba to log a minimum amount of information to syslog. Everything # should go to /var/log/samba/log.{smbd,nmbd} instead. If you want to log # through syslog you should set the following parameter to something higher. # syslog = 0 # Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d ####### Authentication ####### # Server role. Defines in which mode Samba will operate. Possible # values are "standalone server", "member server", "classic primary # domain controller", "classic backup domain controller", "active # directory domain controller". # # Most people will want "standalone sever" or "member server". # Running as "active directory domain controller" will require first # running "samba-tool domain provision" to wipe databases and create a # new domain. server role = standalone server ntlm auth = yes client lanman auth = no # If you are using encrypted passwords, Samba will need to know what # password database type you are using. passdb backend = tdbsam security = user # obey pam restrictions = yes # This boolean parameter controls whether Samba attempts to sync the Unix # password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the # passdb is changed. # unix password sync = yes # For Unix password sync to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following # parameters must be set (thanks to Ian Kahan <<kahan@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> for # sending the correct chat script for the passwd program in Debian Sarge). # passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u # passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . # This boolean controls whether PAM will be used for password changes # when requested by an SMB client instead of the program listed in # 'passwd program'. The default is 'no'. # pam password change = yes # This option controls how unsuccessful authentication attempts are mapped # to anonymous connections map to guest = bad user #========== HIT samba over the head, to disable printing ========= load printers = no show add printer wizard = no printcap name = /dev/null disable spoolss = yes #======================= Share Definitions ======================= [software] path = /srv/data/software guest ok = no guest only = no read only = yes write list = @smbadmins force group = smbadmins create mask = 0775 directory mask = 2775 [media] path = /srv/media guest ok = no guest only = no read only = yes write list = @smbadmins force group = plex force user = plex create mask = 0775 directory mask = 2775 [torrents] path = /srv/data/torrents guest ok = no guest only = no read only = yes write list = @smbadmins force group = debian-transmission force user = smbadmin create mask = 0775 directory mask = 2775 [www] path = /srv/data/www guest ok = no guest only = no read only = yes write list = @smbadmins force group = www-data force user = www-data create mask = 0775 directory mask = 2775 [backup] path = /srv/backup guest ok = no guest only = no read only = yes write list = @smbadmins force group = smbadmins create mask = 0770 directory mask = 2770 [documents] path = /srv/data/documents guest ok = no guest only = no read only = yes write list = @smbadmins force group = smbadmins create mask = 0775 directory mask = 2775 [drop] path = /srv/data/drop guest ok = no guest only = no read only = no write list = @smbadmins,smbuser force group = smbadmins create mask = 0775 directory mask = 2775
You can run a testparm command to check the samba configuration.
testparm
Then restart the samba service.
service smbd restart