How to install samba in fedora 14

The root account will NOT be permitted to login into the graphical desktop. To fix this, make the either of the following changes:. Select Edit Connections Select System eth0 and click Edit Check Connect automatically and click Apply.

Enter 'root' password when prompted. Fedora, like all other Linux distributions, has a root user and has individual users. The root is the "superuser", somewhat similar to "Administrator" in Windows.

Use the personal account you created at First Boot for daily use. To run as 'root' use su or sudo commands. However sudo requires setup. As root run:. NOTE: Every command provided on this page will work if you remove sudo from the command. However this requires you must be logged in as 'root' first.

An alternative to using sudo is to use su to login as root, before executing a command. Fedora uses yum to install and update its software. When connected to the internet it will automatically determine application dependencies. Fedora typically has 2 repositories enabled by default: fedora the same packages that come on any combination of the CD's or DVD's and updates updated packages, newer than fedora repository.

While yum has many plugins available. Fedora 12 and newer enable yum-presto which should try to download only updated portions of packages instead of the full package during updates. Additionally many users use the fastestmirror plugin which typically speeds up downloads by attempting to find faster sources.

To install:. For the purpose of this guide, most all needs are met by the RPMFusion repository, other requirements are stated. Fedora ships without any form of MP3 playback. In order to add MP3 playback you must install from a 3rd party. The following requires the use of the RPMFusion repositories. XMMS rebuilt to be a little bit more modern. Still basic but much better than XMMS. Fedora ships with a limited set of media player for both audio and video.

For audio please read the MP3 player notes. For video and other multimedia DVD, etc. Make sure to have the RPMFusion repositories configured before executing the following. Note that many "dependancies" in libraries, plugins and codecs are shared between these applications and also the MP3 player applications. The following is a list of the most popular media players.

Each has its own strengths. Xine - Xine is similar to MPlayer in many ways however lacking the command line application and encoder.

However has fully supported DVD playback with proper navigation. Banshee - Banshee is an iTunes-like media player which support sync'ing to multiple different devices.

Binary Codecs - The MPlayer projects maintains a package full of binary codecs for which no directly open source option exists, some of these files include Windows DLL's. These are shared by both Xine and MPlayer. This step is really only beneficial to 32bit i users, 64bit users may also install the i It also supports DVD playback. Due to non-technical reasons, the package does not exist in the RPMFusion repository. For only this package an alternate repository will be used. For convenience I have created the RPM please do not link directly to this file : msttcore-fonts In this example, I will add a user named tom.

You can add as many users as you need in the same way, just replace the username tom with the desired username in the commands. Set a password for tom in the Linux system user database. If the user tom should not be able to log into the Linux system, skip this step. This feature is only available to subscribers. Get your subscription here.

Log in or Sign up. Authentication is handled differently as well. Samba can be configured to prompt for a username and password combination. In the past, samba has had some security problems with its authentication systems see for example pass-the-hash. But I think modern versions are much better as long as you keep the legacy authentication methods disabled. The first half of this article seems to be devoted entirely to SElinux issues. Though I have nothing against SElinux, especially on a RHEL based OS, I feel it kind of obfuscates a little the Samba tutorial for the average linux aficionado who just wants to setup quickly a low-maintenance file, print and scanner server that can also be used by the rest of the family members, who could not be convinced to recant their strange obsession for Windows and Android devices.

Apropos, it would be highly appreciated if you could provide a continuation that would show how to extend your Samba server to also offer print and scanner services. SElinux is FAR more complex than those wonderful 9 bits that we can all see with ls and set with chmod, but in this new world of connectivity, complex program-to-program interactions, and endless data breaches, it is necessary.

Why not do the more straightforward solution and install a plug-in 2 Nautilus using the package manager UI? Then right click on the folder you want to share and select share. Because that plugin does not exist in Fedora repos. I have no idea if that is actually him BTW. Just finished editing. Your answer is faster than I expected. Thanks for the detailed and methodical walk through including verification checks and explanation around the interaction with filesystem security context.

I had some problem with the files I created witin the publicfolder did get the root group as default. This does not use SMB. I wrote some script which prints path which can be used in Windows:. Hi, congrats to the author! So in short : I very much like this article and I will use it as a reference!

Thanks for the very clear and thorough explanation. Very good lesson for me. I did the smb install on one computer. Do I have to add something more except install SMB? Samba and file sharing can lots more complicated that this! D 0 Tue Jun 23 Fedora Linux 35 is available now.

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