#### SAMBA in NETBSD ####

This is a tutorial about how I setup SAMBA in NetBSD.  My intention with this 
tutorial is to teach you how to setup the rc.d scripts, setup a simple smb.conf, 
and get SAMBA running with minimal fuss.

If you just want to mount a shared filesystem you don't need to install anything 
from pkgsrc.  You can use mount_smbfs that comes by default with NetBSD.  I 
first tested this by mounting a "shared" directory on an XP system from a NetBSD 
2.0 system.  I found that I had to press <Enter> 2 times when prompted for a 
password, and then the mount was working at the point I selected to mount the 
file system.  This was interesting, but what I really wanted to do was serve SMB 
to Windows clients, and for that I needed SAMBA.

I wanted to export my ~/media tree, so that Windows XP clients can access the 
files.  This is what I did:

# cd /usr/pkgsrc/net/samba 
# make package

That installed the package, and created 
/usr/pkgsrc/packages/net/samba-3.0.10nb2.tgz

I prefer the `make package` command, because I share binary packages with 
another NetBSD 2.0 system over NFS.

My next step was to follow the directions that were printed to the xterm when 
samba was installed.

First I copied these files to /etc/rc.d
/usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/samba
/usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/nmbd
/usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/smbd
/usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/winbindd

Next I edited /etc/rc.conf and added
samba=YES
smbd=YES
nmbd=YES
winbindd=YES

The next step is to setup the configuration for SAMBA, so that it knows which 
filesystems to export, the permissions, and so on.

I ran the following:

cp /usr/pkg/share/examples/samba/adduser.sh /usr/pkg/etc/samba/adduser
cp /usr/pkg/share/examples/samba/deluser.sh /usr/pkg/etc/samba/deluser
cp /usr/pkg/share/examples/samba/smb.conf.default /usr/pkg/etc/samba/smb.conf

Now I edited smb.conf. I didn't want to share any printers, so I commented out 
the printer section.

My major new addition to smb.conf (based on examples and the smb.conf man page) 
was:

[media]
    comment = George's Media
    path = /home/gps/media
    public = yes
    writable = no

The top of the smb.conf file suggests running testparm to verify that the 
configuration is valid.  So, by running testparm smb.conf I get the following 
result:

Load smb config files from smb.conf
Processing section "[media]"
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

# Global parameters
[global]
        workgroup = MAGICHIMO
        server string = Samba %v (%h)
        security = SHARE

[media]
        comment = George's Media
        path = /home/gps/media
        guest ok = Yes


Now that it's all configured, and passes testparm's checks, I started samba.

As root I ran: 

# /etc/rc.d/samba start

Next I verified the status by running:

# /etc/rc.d/samba status
nmbd is running as pid 699.
smbd is running as pid 658 880.
winbindd is running as pid 687 1009.

On the Windows XP client I went into "My Network Places" in the Explorer file 
manager.  I then added \\192.168.0.2\media and the file system was readable from 
the XP client.


For more advanced usage you can follow the directions on the SAMBA site.  For 
example, you may want to only allow certain IP addresses (for security), or 
password protect your shares.  I am behind a firewall, and the ports that SAMBA 
uses are not forwarded, so the SAMBA shares are only accessible from my LAN.


May your bits toggle,

George