Category Archives: Samba

Group share for a Active Directory domain group with Samba

By jacob | Published: May 6, 2009
Once you have joined your samba server to your domain and have set up user authentication, creating a share that will allow a group of users to access files is pretty simple.  We need to create a folder that is owned by the root user and the domain group. The samba share will inherit permissions [...]
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Join Debian Lenny to Active Directory using Samba

By jacob | Published: May 1, 2009
If you install GNOME on Debian and intend to use it as a server, first thing you should do is remove the network-manager and network-manager-gnome packages. This tool can be helpful on a desktop, but since we are tweaking DNS, IP addresses, and perhaps even NIC bonding, the network-manager can screw up your settings. aptitude purge [...]
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Debian Samba share. no password. read only

By jacob | Published: October 8, 2008
Just install samba server: apt-get install samba edit the config: nano /etc/samba/smb.conf set security to “share” security = share and guest account to nobody guest account = nobody then you just need to create your share like this: [guest share] comment = a guest share path = /path/to/files browseable = yes read only = yes guest ok = yes
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Uninstall MySQL 5 from Debian

By jacob | Published: September 27, 2008
I completely. completely messed up MySQL. Badly. I wiped out the data directory (/var/lib/mysql in Debian) and the went to remove mysql … apt-get remove --purge mysql-server That only deleted something like 86K. dissapointing. It looks like “mysql-server” is a shortcut pointing to the latest version of the software. The real software is found  under the name [...]
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