How to install samba on freebsd if its intsalled on vmware from host machine where installed windows
1. Install samba via ports, make install clean
Lets assume that username is “hockey”
2. put in rc.conf
nmbd_enable="YES"
smbd_enable="YES"
3. edit smb.conf
mcedit /usr/local/etc/smb.conf
with
[global]
workgroup = samba
server string = SambaServer
security = user
hosts allow = 192.168. 192.168.2. 127.
[hockey]
comment = hockey stuff
path = /home/hockey
valid users = hockey
public = no
writable = yes
printable = no
create mask = 0644
4.
hockey# smbpasswd -a hockey
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Added user hockey.
5. start samba daemon
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba start
7. check ifconfig ip address
open from windows
\\192.168.81.130\hockey\share
username: hockey (without: HOCKEY/)
pass:[password]
done