This is for a peer-to-peer setup. Most of this information came from stormbringer in vienna austria (link to the right) who appearently has a whole lot more experience with samba than I do. It is posted here only for my personal notes for those times when I am diconnected from the internet and am forced to rely on my intranet.

First things first: Get a copy of samba if it isn't already installed.

sudo apt-get install samba

Not sure? Try stopping it first.

Once installed it will be running, stop it!.

sudo /etc/init.d/samba stop

Next get rid of the old config file at /etc/samba/smb.conf. Then create a new one...

sudo touch smb.conf

Now add the following sections as needed.

This section gives access to the home folders. Symlinks will not work and the permissions must be set correctly.

[homes]
valid users = %S
create mode = 0600
directory mode = 0755
browseable = no
read only = no
veto files = /*.{*}/.*/mail/bin/

To access printers add this section ...

[print$]
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = yes
write list = root
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775
[printers] path = /tmp printable = yes guest ok = yes browseable = no

To create a trust account you need to create a user account on the primary domain controller for the machine that needs the trust account. Then add that machine as a user to SAMBA. Machine accounts are denoted by suffixing the machine (netbios) name with a $.

To add a user account on the PDC:

useradd -d /dev/null - s /bin/false -c "[MachineNickname" -g [GroupIdForMachines] -m [MachineName]$

• -d /dev/null sets the home directory to the bit bucket
• -s /bin/false sets no shell
• -c [MachineNickname] is the nick name is what you call the machine e.g. the computer next to the beer fridge.
• -g [GroupIdForMachines] is the group id the machine accounts are in. Look at /etc/group to find this out.
• -m indicates not to create a home directory
• [MachineName] is the netbios name of the machine.

Machine accounts have no password.

Next create an account in SAMBA

smbpasswd -a -m [MachineName]$

• -a means add the record
• -m indicates that this account is a machine accont