Samba on NonStop User Manual

C Quick Start

This section provides an example of a very simple NS-Samba setup and illustrates each of the steps

with commands. In this example, we are configuring NS-Samba to provide read access to the

NS-Samba documentation directory /usr/local/samba/share/docs and read-write access

to /tmp directory. A user by name DEVS.CALVIN is used to access the shares.

1. Add the user DEVS.CALVIN to the NonStop system, if one does not exist already, using the

SAFECOM utility. Only the super user or group manager (group name DEVS and group number

101) uses the following command to add CALVIN to the group:

=ADD USER DEVS.CALVIN, 101, 10, PASSWORD hobbes

This command adds an user who has the user name DEVS.CALVIN and the user ID 101,10.

CALVIN's logon password for the NonStop server is hobbes. The other user attributes for

DEVS.CALVIN have their default values.

2. Add the user DEVS.CALVIN to the NS-Samba user database:

# /usr/bin/pdbedit -a devs.calvin

Enter DEVS.CALVIN’s NS-Samba password when prompted. In this example, tiger has

been provided as the password.

3. Configure the NS-Samba server by placing the following content in the /etc/samba/

smb.conf file:

# Samba configuration file

[global]

netbios name = POS05

workgroup = WORKGROUP

security = user

smbd:backgroundqueue = False

[SambaDocs]

comment = Samba documents

path = /usr/local/samba/share/docs

read only = yes

[tmp]

comment = Scratch pad

path = /tmp

read only = No

4. Verify the correctness of the syntax using testparm tool.

#testparm /etc/samba/smb.conf

Check and proceed if no errors or warnings are reported in the output. An example of the

output for the above mentioned configuration file is given below:

Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf

Processing section "[SambaDocs]"

Processing section "[tmp]"

Creating default valid table

Loaded services file OK

Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE