Книга: Fedora™ Unleashed, 2008 edition

Configuring Samba with system-config-samba

Configuring Samba with system-config-samba

Fedora benefits from a slew of utilities that were developed as part of the original Red Hat Linux. Fortunately, work has carried on after Red Hat Linux was discontinued and the Samba configuration tool has lived on. And although it hasn't undergone major enhancements since Fedora Core 1, it is still a very useful tool to have to hand when configuring basic Samba services.

You can access it under System, Administration, Samba, and the opening screen is shown in Figure 19.2.

FIGURE 19.2 system-config-samba, a great way to get up and running quickly with Samba.

To get started, just click the Add Share icon in the toolbar, or select Add Share from the File menu. Either way takes you to the basic settings screen shown in Figure 19.3.

FIGURE 19.3 Click the Browse button to locate the folder you want to share.

In the basic settings, you need to provide the path to the folder that you want to share via Samba. You also need to give it a share name, and an optional description. If you plan on setting up a number of shares, you might want to consider filling out the description to help you distinguish between them all.

Next up you need to select one or both of the check boxes to allow users to view (visible) and or write (writable) to the folder. Subdirectories underneath the specified directory inherit the permissions stated here.

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