Monday, March 11, 2013

How to configure Samba in Oracle Solaris 10

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Samba comes installed with Oracle Solaris 10. We only have to configure it according to our needs. Following are steps to properly configure samba according to our needs.

You can verify that samba packages are already installed in Oracle Solaris 10 by following command.

1. pkginfo -x | grep -i samba

SUNWsmbac    samba - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX (client)
SUNWsmbar    samba - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX (Root)
SUNWsmbau    samba - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX (Usr)

 2. You can check the location of samba config file by following command

pkgchk -l SUNWsmbar | grep conf-example

Pathname: /etc/samba/smb.conf-example

 3. Check current state of samba

 svcs -a | grep samba

 disabled       Feb_22   svc:/network/samba:default

 4. Try to enable samba

 svcadm enable samba

 maintenance    10:27:33 svc:/network/samba:default

 It is not enabled, but it is in maintenance mode. You can check the errors encountered while enabling samba by following command.

 tail /var/adm/messages

 mysystem svc.startd[8]: [ID 652011 daemon.warning] svc:/network/samba:default: Method "/usr/sbin/smbd -D" failed with exit status 1

 It means samba failed to start, it most likely due to missing config file.

 5. Now copy the sample config file and modify it

 cp /etc/samba/smb.conf-example /etc/samba/smb.conf

 By default config file is readonly, so make is right able by following command.

chmod 0777 /etc/samba/smb.conf

vi /etc/samba/smb.conf

 Add following section in smb.conf file.

 [myshare]
comment = My Share
force user = oracle
path = /u01/app/oracle
writeable = no
guest ok = yes

 now save file and exit vi.

6. Now change the rights on smb.conf file as before

 chmod 0444 /etc/samba/smb.conf

7. Now try to disable samba

 svcadm disable samba
svcs -a | grep samba
disabled       10:41:49 svc:/network/samba:default

 8. Now try to enable samba again

 svcadm enable samba
svcs -a | grep samba
online         10:42:04 svc:/network/samba:default

 9. Now set password for oracle user to use "myshare".

smbpasswd -a oracle

 10. Now on windows try to map drive

net use O: \\192.168.1.20\myshare

 Configuration of samba completes. In-sha-Allah this will help and serve the purpose. For any corrections and improvements please suggest.



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27 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 21, 2013 at 4:21 PM

    Assalamwalikum,


    Very gud article. Thanks for sharing this.

    Asif

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  2. AnonymousAugust 21, 2013 at 8:21 PM

    extremely useful and works! Thank you..

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  3. AnonymousOctober 8, 2013 at 11:16 AM

    very precise and accurate.. Thanks for sharing this.

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  4. UnknownOctober 21, 2013 at 7:26 PM

    baraka Allahu fik my brother ..... very useful

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  5. AnonymousOctober 30, 2013 at 10:48 AM

    Simple, straight forward, Excellent!!! Jazakallah Khair..

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  6. Fouzudeen Mohamed YacubJanuary 22, 2014 at 8:00 PM

    Jazakallahu Khairan. . . .

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  7. INTEKFebruary 9, 2014 at 4:26 PM

    One of the best article Nazir Bhai...
    Thank you very much ...
    Jazakumullah khair....

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  8. UnknownFebruary 14, 2014 at 7:23 PM

    Good info. but you can some more info. if samba not installed how install pkg's

    Thanks

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  9. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2014 at 12:42 AM

    Naseer, This is very helpful and useful step. Thanks for sharing this.

    Hi Kim,

    you can install it from solaris OS CD. just go into product and perform the pkgadd

    Thanks

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  10. AnonymousAugust 28, 2014 at 12:13 AM

    Hi Nasir Bhai,

    This has resolved my problem..

    May Allah bless you with all Happiness..

    --Ravi

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  11. AnonymousOctober 26, 2014 at 11:16 AM

    Good info Nasir...

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  12. AnonymousDecember 16, 2014 at 5:22 PM

    thanks you sir.

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  13. UnknownJuly 7, 2015 at 2:58 PM

    Thank you Nasir Zeeshan , your blogspot site is very helpful for me.

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  14. AnonymousAugust 21, 2015 at 6:29 PM

    Thanks a lot Nasir bhai.
    I am facing few issues after sharing the Solaris folder, Could you please share your email id so that we can discuss over chat?

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  15. Mohd HaniefFebruary 11, 2016 at 7:58 PM

    Assalamualaikum. thanks for the good info brother.

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  16. AnonymousMay 5, 2016 at 4:52 AM

    Masha Allah..Great job done...Keep up the good work... :)

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  17. AnonymousJuly 25, 2016 at 2:54 PM

    Thanks for sharing it

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  18. AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 3:56 AM

    Thanks for sharing it. It has helped me a lot.

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  19. UnknownSeptember 16, 2016 at 11:33 AM

    when you open with hostname in window's(\\orange) it's not open,but when you open with ip (\\192.168.1.10) the share folder is open.kindly share the solution,it will helpful for others.

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    1. UnknownSeptember 16, 2016 at 12:22 PM

      Good day Shiva,
      Have you configured hostname orange in your hosts file in windows. If not please set it in hosts file and try ping with hostname. If it work \\orange will also work.

      I hope it will fix the problem,
      Regards,
      Nasir Zeeshan

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    2. UnknownSeptember 16, 2016 at 12:28 PM

      450 pc is there in our setup,already DNS configured in solaris samba . not possible to configure host entry in all 450 servers,any other alternate solution is there???

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    3. UnknownSeptember 16, 2016 at 12:44 PM

      DNS entry is also fine, make sure ping works.

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  20. UnknownOctober 17, 2016 at 6:39 PM

    From Windows server getting below error while trying to share the drive
    System error 1312 has occurred.

    A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated.

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    1. UnknownOctober 17, 2016 at 6:54 PM

      Please check the following link. I hope it will help.

      https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/4bb8261f-7851-44b5-b3b1-b58067a0bdb0/remoting-net-use-on-dfs-share-error-1312?forum=winserverfiles

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  21. VolkanNovember 22, 2017 at 4:21 PM

    It may useful to add "host allow" parameter in your article. Thanks

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  22. AnonymousMarch 5, 2018 at 6:24 PM

    when i use smbpasswd -a user i get this msg
    Failed to add entry for user user

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