Samba Setup PCLinuxOS 2011.6 KDE

[Texstar]

This tutorial will walk you through setting up a simple shared folder
in your home directory.

Open Dolphin
Create a new Folder called Shared in your home directory
Right click on the Shared Folder
Click on Properties
Click on Permissions
Click on Advanced
Check all 6 boxes
Click OK
Click OK



Open Synaptic
Click Reload to get a current file list
Click on Search
Type in task-samba
Right click on the task-samba
Mark for installation
Click Apply
Close out Synaptic after transaction is complete



Open Configure Your Computer (PCLinuxOS Control Center)
Click on Network Sharing
Click on Share drives and directories with Windows (SMB) System

The Wizard will start.
Select Standalone - standalone server
Click OK



Workgroup type mshome
Netbios name type samba-server
Click OK



Security Mode - Select Share
Host Allow - type 192.168.1.  (Please note all of my network computers use 192.168.x.x)
Click OK.



Server Banner
Click OK



Samba Log
Click OK



Final Satus Wizard page
Click OK



Congrats you the Wizard has configured your Samba Server
Click OK



File Share Tab
Click on Modify
Click on Open
Select the Shared folder you setup earlier
Click OK

Add Yes to Public, Writable , Browseable
Click OK



Click on Samba Users Tab
Click on Add
Select Nobody
Leave the password field blank
Click OK




Click on the Samba Server Menu Item next to File
Select Reload
Select Restart
Click OK



While still in the Control Center go to System -> Manage System Services
Scroll down to SMB
It should show as running
Check the box to On Boot
Click OK



You can now close out the PCLinuxOS Control Center.

To test copy some files into the Shared folder.
Go to another computer on the network (sorry no Windows here)
Open the Konqueror File Manager from the menu -> File Tools
In the URL bar type smb://samba-server/homes
There is your shared folder with files! \O/

For Dolphin Click on Network
Click on Samba Shares
Click on mshome
Click again on Samba-Server
Click one more time - on Homes
There is your shared folder with files! \O/

Holy crap you did it!

[YouCanToo]

Texstar,  May I use this in the HowTo section of the knowledge base?

Thanks YouCanToo

[Joble]

Looks like a good topic for the Mag!

[Texstar]

You can do what you want with it. I'm not an expert with Samba but the above worked for me for my internal network and gives me a folder I can copy, read and write to.

Tex

[YouCanToo]

Thank you!

[plankton172]

Hi there,

I did the above setup on a fresh install of PCLinuxOS KDE 2011.06. The machine is 9-year old and has a Pentium 4 cpu with 1GB of DDR1 RAM. It's connected to a DLink DIR-600 router which a newer machine with a fully-updated PCLinuxOS KDE 2010.12 is also connected. The problem I encountered is, from the newer machine which wants to access the shared folder on the old PC...

< Using Dolphin >

Click on Samba Shares ---> OK
Click on mshome ---> OK
Click again on Samba-Server ---> OK
Click one more time - on Homes ---> at this point, the message "The file or folder smb://samba-server/homes does not exist" appears at the bottom of Dolphin.

Is there anything I should setup / install on the computer which is attempting to open the shared folder?

[parnote]

Looks like a good topic for the Mag!

Joble, old buddy! Thanks for volunteering to write it up! 

parnote

[Joble]

ROFL!  Hmmmmm...... Looks like I stepped in that one.  Good thing it's a three day weekend.   

[T6]

i did those steps last week because for some reason the samba section in kde control center is not working for my user, only for root

is that normal?

[desmolinux]

< Using Dolphin >

Click on Samba Shares ---> OK
Click on mshome ---> OK
Click again on Samba-Server ---> OK
Click one more time - on Homes ---> at this point, the message "The file or folder smb://samba-server/homes does not exist" appears at the bottom of Dolphin.

Is there anything I should setup / install on the computer which is attempting to open the shared folder?

I have the same problem, what can we do?
Thanks.

[Mac]

Works great, thanks a lot Tex =)

[erripe]

Hi there,

I did the above setup on a fresh install of PCLinuxOS KDE 2011.06. The machine is 9-year old and has a Pentium 4 cpu with 1GB of DDR1 RAM. It's connected to a DLink DIR-600 router which a newer machine with a fully-updated PCLinuxOS KDE 2010.12 is also connected. The problem I encountered is, from the newer machine which wants to access the shared folder on the old PC...

< Using Dolphin >

Click on Samba Shares ---> OK
Click on mshome ---> OK
Click again on Samba-Server ---> OK
Click one more time - on Homes ---> at this point, the message "The file or folder smb://samba-server/homes does not exist" appears at the bottom of Dolphin.

Is there anything I should setup / install on the computer which is attempting to open the shared folder?

I have the same problem. I can ping computers by IP adress but not by hostname.   

[muungwana]

i did those steps last week because for some reason the samba section in kde control center is not working for my user, only for root

is that normal?

it is normal, setting up samba is a system wide setup and only a user with root's privileges should be allowed to do that.

[T6]

i remember that you could press a button to do as root those steps without loggin in as root

[johnmart]

Isn't the samba install part via PCC? That is root, rt?
I got the same error, but didn't play with it much. Would like to get it going though.