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CentOS 7 Server Deployment Cookbook
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CentOS 7 Server Deployment Cookbook

by Timothy Boronczyk
October 2016
Beginner
406 pages
7h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from CentOS 7 Server Deployment Cookbook

Serving Windows shares with Samba

In this recipe, you will learn how to serve a Windows share from a CentOS system using Samba. Like NFS, a Windows share is a directory on a remote server that a client may access to store files. Samba is a server that understands the SMB protocol used by Windows so that it can export directories that a Windows client can mount.

Getting ready

This recipe requires a CentOS system with a working network connection. You'll also need administrative privileges provided by logging in with the root account.

The name of your Windows workgroup is needed to configure Samba properly. Before you begin, on your Windows system in your network, run net config workstation and record the Workstation domain value:

net config workstation ...

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