Setting up samba with password protection

Posted on May 2nd, 2008 in Networking, Samba, Windows by admin

To easily share your files to linux and windows clients, samba is still the preferred choice. In this guide I will show how to setup a samba server on centos 5 machine, that can be accessed only by certain people protected by password.

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How to setup a Samba Server

Posted on March 6th, 2008 in Networking, Samba, Servers, Windows by admin

Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.” Samba is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients. If you would like to setup a server so Windows users can access shared directories, this tutorial is for you.