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Mounting a Samba Share From Linux Client to Linux Samba Server

Posted on June 2, 2017January 23, 2021 by rchapin

In order to be able to access a Samba share on a remote client as a mounted file system execute the following command, as root on the client:

mount -t cifs -o user=<user-on-samba-share,uid=<uid-on-local-macheine,gid=<gid-on-local-machine,rw,workgroup=<your-workgroup//ip/share /mnt/mount-point-dir

You will be prompted for the password for the user defined on the Samba server.

If you are able to authenticate, and then get the following error:

ls: reading directory .: Permission denied

Check the SELinux context type of the directory on → Continue reading “Mounting a Samba Share From Linux Client to Linux Samba Server”

Creating a Samba Share and Configuring an Access Control List for a Shared Directory Under Linux

Posted on October 18, 2015February 2, 2021 by rchapin

Often administrators would like to configure a Samba share that enables users to have the same access to any files within the share. Without some additional configuration, directories and files created by one user will not have the r/w permissions for other users that have access to that same share.

The end goal is to have a Samba share in which any new files are created with r/w permissions for a specific group to which all of the members of → Continue reading “Creating a Samba Share and Configuring an Access Control List for a Shared Directory Under Linux”