Hi,
I'm currently fiddling with Samba, trying to make it work on CentOS 7. Before that, I ran Samba successfully in a mixed environment with Slackware64 14.1 on the server and Slackware/Windows Seven on the client side.
I have three sandbox machines running CentOS 7. One has a minimal install with only the samba and samba-client packages. Just to be on the safe side for fiddling, SELinux is disabled, there's no firewall, etc.
I installed the 'samba' and 'samba-client' packages and edited a custom /etc/samba/smb.conf like this:
# /etc/samba/smb.conf
[global] workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = Serveur de fichiers AMANDINE netbios name = AMANDINE dns proxy = yes domain master = yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 syslog = 2 bind interfaces only = yes interfaces = 192.168.2.0/24 localhost hosts allow = 192.168.2. 127. security = user passdb backend = tdbsam unix password sync = no invalid users = root encrypt passwords = yes guest account=smbguest map to guest = bad user force group = users create mode = 0660 directory mode = 0770 load printers = no printing = bsd printcap name = /dev/null disable spoolss = yes
[Public] path = /srv/samba/public comment = Partage Public public = yes only guest = yes read only = no
[Confidentiel] path = /srv/samba/confidentiel comment = Partage Confidentiel read only = no invalid users = root nobody smbguest
Note: I explicitly disabled printing because Samba apparently refused to start, complaining about missing printers. And I did not forget to create a handful of Samba users (smbguest as well as normal users).
On the server, I have this:
# smbclient -L localhost -N Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.1.1]
Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- Public Disk Partage Public Confidentiel Disk Partage Confidentiel IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Serveur de fichiers AMANDINE) Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.1.1]
Server Comment --------- ------- AMANDINE Serveur de fichiers AMANDINE NAS
Workgroup Master --------- ------- WORKGROUP AMANDINE
On the desktop clients (running CentOS 7 + GNOME), when I click on "Explorer le réseau" (I think it is "Browse Network" in english), I don't see any server appearing. The 'samba-client' package is installed on the clients.
Now I'm a bit clueless. Any suggestions on what to try next?
Cheers,
Niki