Setup Samba Daemon from Source Code

Reference

Source tarball:

https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/samba-3.0.37.tar.gz

Build and Installation

./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && make install

Configure

After installation, you will find samba files in /usr/local/samba .

• bin
  all the utility tools here

• lib
  the common libraries here, and the default configuration file smb.conf located here

• sbin
  the daemon binaries nmbd & smbd here

A simple example configuration file:

[global]
         workgroup = MYGROUP
         server string = Samba Server %v
         security = user
         log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
         passdb backend = smbpasswd
         smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
[root]
         path = /
         valid users = root
         writeable = yes
[public]
         path = /tmp
         guest ok = yes
         read only = yes

Add samba user

Note: a samba user must be a system user first, (adduser/useradd system utilities).
Note: make sure smbpasswd file exists in /etc/samba/smbpasswd, if not, touch it first.
Note: make sure smb.conf file exists in /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf, if not, configure it as above;
Note: sudo required.

as an example, add root to samba’s smbpasswd file;

#!/bin/bash
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbpasswd -a root
Enter password:
balabala....
Retry password:
balabala....
Added root as samba user.

Check configuration

#!/bin/bash
/usr/local/samba/bin/testparm

Startup

#!/bin/bash
/usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -D
/usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd -D
pgrep -x nmbd && pgrep -x smbd
echo "Done"

it is also available to specify a smb.conf for smbd & nmbd with -s option;

Test with smbclient

list

#!/bin/bash
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient -L //127.0.0.1/ -U root
Enter Password:

Domain=[HARRY-VIRTUALBOX] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.37]

    Sharename       Type      Comment
    ---------       ----      -------
    root            Disk      
    public          Disk      
    IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Samba Server 3.0.37)
Domain=[HARRY-VIRTUALBOX] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.37]

    Server               Comment
    ---------            -------

    Workgroup            Master
    ---------            -------
    MYGROUP              HARRY-VIRTUALBOX
    WORKGROUP            HARRYBOT

use it

#!/bin/bash
/usr/loca/samba/bin/smbclient //127.0.0.1/root -U root
Password:.....

Domain=[HARRY-VIRTUALBOX] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.37]
smb: \> ls
  .                                   D        0  Wed Dec  2 10:52:00 2015
  ..                                  D        0  Wed Dec  2 10:52:00 2015
  mnt                                 D        0  Mon Oct 19 17:14:38 2015
  proc                               DR        0  Fri Feb 12 16:33:13 2016
  media                               D        0  Wed Oct 21 23:49:12 2015
  etc                                 D        0  Sat Feb 13 16:06:17 2016
  home                                D        0  Fri Feb 12 22:46:27 2016
  run                                 D        0  Sat Feb 13 15:18:23 2016
  root                                D        0  Sat Feb 13 15:59:06 2016
  opt                                 D        0  Wed Oct 21 23:49:12 2015
  cdrom                               D        0  Wed Dec  2 10:22:38 2015
  srv                                 D        0  Wed Oct 21 23:49:12 2015
  lib64                               D        0  Wed Oct 21 23:49:20 2015
  usr                                 D        0  Wed Jan 13 14:14:03 2016
  vmlinuz                                6797696  Wed Dec  2 10:21:56 2015
  var                                 D        0  Tue Dec  8 15:46:27 2015
  lost+found                          D        0  Wed Dec  2 10:18:54 2015
  tmp                                 D        0  Sat Feb 13 16:18:12 2016
  initrd.img                            33669308  Wed Dec  2 10:52:58 2015
  sys                                DR        0  Fri Feb 12 16:33:08 2016
  boot                                D        0  Wed Dec  2 10:52:58 2015
  bin                                 D        0  Wed Dec  2 10:52:39 2015
  sbin                                D        0  Fri Feb 12 22:36:20 2016
  lib                                 D        0  Fri Dec 18 22:35:25 2015
  dev                                 D        0  Sat Feb 13 03:02:07 2016

        39433 blocks of size 1048576. 28119 blocks available
smb: \>

access from windows 7

net use x: \\192.168.56.101\root /user:root /persistent:yes 
Enter password: ....