Samba Configuration

[dureal99d]

Hello

I am trying to configure samba whereas when i access the4 machine from another machine be it windows or whatever it will not present the folders 1st but ask for the authentication logon prompt.

Currently when i click a Linux machine it shows the folders but then ask for authentication after trying to access the folder.

 

[KGIII]

I think this thread is most suited for the 'networking' sub-forum, so I've moved it there.

It's a bit of an iffy one, but I think that's the most appropriate sub-forum for this post.

You, the OP, don't really need to worry. We're a fairly small forum. Pretty much everyone will see your post and anyone who can help isn't going to be too concerned about the sub-forum this is posted in. I just keep things tidy.

 

[dureal99d]

I think this thread is most suited for the 'networking' sub-forum, so I've moved it there.

It's a bit of an iffy one, but I think that's the most appropriate sub-forum for this post.

You, the OP, don't really need to worry. We're a fairly small forum. Pretty much everyone will see your post and anyone who can help isn't going to be too concerned about the sub-forum this is posted in. I just keep things tidy.

Thanks soon I will learn the laye of the land.

 

[KGIII]

Thanks soon I will learn the laye of the land.

It's no big deal. I just try to make sure that things are in the most appropriate sub-forum. I'm not one of the crazy power-hungry mods you may be used to seeing elsewhere. I'm pretty much just a glorified janitor and, well, there isn't even all that much glory.

 

[Mike-BTU]

Currently when i click a Linux machine it shows the folders but then ask for authentication after trying to access the folder.

Have you tried entering the username and password for that machine?

 

[dos2unix]

Are you trying to access a windows drive from Linux, or access a Linux drive from Windows?

 

[dureal99d]

Are you trying to access a windows drive from Linux, or access a Linux drive from Windows?

A mixture of both. For example if I logon to a Windows PC the authentication prompt. But in Linux it will show the folders and only the authentication prompt when you click on a folder. In network

 

[dos2unix]

You don't need Samba to share a Linux drive. Only NFS.

Thread 'Network File Sharing'

Feb 3, 2025

What if you have two Linux computers at your house. What if you need to transfer files back and forth between those two computers frequently.

Well, you have some options. You could use scp or sftp. But typing in passwords and paths every time you want to copy a file in a little bit of a hassle. What do we do? What if I could see the drive on computer1 on computer2 just like it was a mounted file system. Wouldn't that be handy?

For the sake of this tutorial, I will call the computer doing the sharing the NFS server, and the remote computer the NFS client.
You could actually make...

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Thread 'Mounting a shared Windows drive in Linux.'

Feb 13, 2025

I while back I did an article about using NFS to share a folder from one Linux computer to another. This one is slightly different.
It's about sharing a drive from your Windows PC to your Linux computer.

Note: I have to write this article in two parts. I have to do the first part from my windows PC. Then I have to change computers and do the second part from my Linux system.

I am using Windows 11 Professional for this article. Your steps might be slightly different.

Open up your file explorer in Windows. You share just a folder if you like, or an entire drive if your like. The...

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Post in thread 'linux to windows file share'

May 30, 2023

What distro?

You don't need the entire Samba suite, but you'll need some samba tools.

Add something similar to this, to your /etc/fstab file.

//mywindowsServer.windows.net/windowsShare /mnt/windowsShare cifs nofail,vers=3.0,credentials=/etc/smbcredentials/windowsShare.cred,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,serverino

For redhat/centos/rocky/alma/fedora type distro's you''ll need to install cifs-utils

You will also need credentials for the windows server. ( username/password )

Then make a file in /etc/smbcredentials/windowsShare.cred
It should look something like this...

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[dureal99d]

This has nothing to do with a drive. This is all about networking. This is about samba.

See the attached example

In this example whenever I click on the machine it instantly comes up with a uthentication prompt.


However in this example on my Linux machine that runs samba. Whenever I click on the machine it doesn't instantly come up with a authentication prompt. Instead it will show the folders that I have shared and/or the drives that I have shared it doesn't matter if they are NTFS ext4 etc.

It is only after I click to access one of those drives that the authentication prompt comes up


As I said how do I configure samba to come up with a authentication prompt and not show what I have shared prior to whatever is requesting to be authenticated.