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Enabling Samba on FreeBSD

The following steps can be used to enable Samba on FreeBSD.

Notes:

These steps seem to work on FreeBSD 5.2.1. They should work on other versions as well.
The ports collection needs to be installed.

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Steps for Samba version 3.0.3:

Install Samba from /usr/ports/net/samba-devel:

# cd /usr/ports/net/samba-devel
# make install

Enable Samba:

# echo 'samba_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf.local

Customize /usr/local/etc/smb.conf:
- Set the workgroup by change the following:
```
workgroup = MYGROUP
```
  to
```
workgroup = workgroup
```
  This is around line 21.
  If a NT Domain/Workgroup doesn't exist, the workgroup can be set to the DNS domain name.
- Set the server string by changing the following:
```
server string = Samba Server
```
  to
```
server string = hostname
```
  This is around line 24.
- Enable password encryption for the [global] share by adding the following:
```
# Enable password encryption
   encrypt passwords = yes
```
  This can be added around line 31.
- (Optional) Disable printer loading by changing the following:
```
load printers = yes
```
  to
```
load printers = no
```
  This is around line 43.
- (Optional) Disable the [printers] share by changing the following:
```
[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   path = /var/spool/samba
   browseable = no
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
   guest ok = no
   writable = no
   printable = yes
```
  to
```
;[printers]
;   comment = All Printers
;   path = /var/spool/samba
;   browseable = no
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print 
;   guest ok = no
;   writable = no
;   printable = yes
```
  This starts around line 192.
- (Optional) If CUPS is installed and Samba printing should be enabled change the following:
```
;   printing = bsd
```
  to
```
    printing = cups
```
  This is around line 56.
- (Optional) Act as a time server:
```
# Act as a time server
   time server = yes
```
  This can be added around line 41.
Valiate smb.conf:
```
# /usr/local/bin/testparm -s
```
Save the default smbpasswd and secrets.tdb:
```
# cd /usr/local/private 
# mv secrets.tdb secrets.tdb.default
# mv smbpasswd smbpasswd.default
```
This may be required only when upgrading from older versions of samba.
Set the samba password for users who need samba access:
```
# /usr/local/bin/pdbedit -a username
```
Start Samba:
```
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba.sh start
```

(Optional) Check to see if samba is running:

$ ps -auwxx | egrep '[sn]mbd'
root    909  0.0  0.8  6504 4008  ??  Is   11:29PM   0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/smbd -D
root    911  0.0  0.4  3488 2048  ??  Ss   11:29PM   0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/nmbd -D

(Optional) Test samba using smbclient:

$ /usr/local/bin/smbclient -U username \\\\localhost\\username

$ /usr/local/bin/smbclient -U username //localhost/username

Steps for Samba version 3.0.0:

Install Samba from /usr/ports:

# cd cd /usr/ports/net/samba-devel
# make install

Enable Samba:

# cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d
# ln -s samba.sh.sample samba.sh

Customize /usr/local/etc/smb.conf:
- Set the server string by changing the following:
```
server string = Samba Server
```
  to
```
server string = hostname
```
  This is around line 21.
- Modify logging (samba creates two log files per host that connects, so a separate samba log directory is useful) by changing the following:
```
log file = /var/log/log.%m
```
  to
```
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
```
  This is around line 54.
- Enable password encryption by changing the following:
```
;  encrypt passwords = yes
```
  to
```
   encrypt passwords = yes
```
  This is around line 67.
- Enable password synchronization by adding the following to the [global] share:
```
# Enable unix password synchronization
  unix password sync = yes
  passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
```
  This can be added around line 69.
- (Optional) Disable printer loading by changing the following:
```
load printers = yes
```
  to
```
load printers = no
```
  This is around line 32.
- (Optional) Disable the [printers] share by changing the following:
```
[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   path = /var/spool/samba
   browseable = no
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
   guest ok = no
   writeable = no
   printable = yes
```
  to
```
;[printers]
;   comment = All Printers
;   path = /var/spool/samba
;   browseable = no
;# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
;   guest ok = no
;   writeable = no
;   printable = yes
```
  This starts around line 170.
- (Optional) If CUPS is installed and Samba printing should be enabled change the following:
```
;   printing = bsd
```
  to
```
    printing = cups
```
  This is around line 45.
Create the samba log file directory:
```
# mkdir -p /var/log/samba
```
Set the samba password for users who need samba access:
```
# /usr/local/bin/pdbedit -a username
```
Start Samba:
```
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba.sh start
```

(Optional) Check to see if samba is running:

$ ps -auwxx | egrep '[sn]mbd'
root    909  0.0  0.8  6504 4008  ??  Is   11:29PM   0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/smbd -D
root    911  0.0  0.4  3488 2048  ??  Ss   11:29PM   0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/nmbd -D

(Optional) Test samba using smbclient:

$ /usr/local/bin/smbclient \\\\localhost\\username

$ /usr/local/bin/smbclient //localhost/username