Configuring Joatha to use SAMBA (Windows) Shares from Remote Machines

Do all commands as root (in a Terminal or Konsole) Put the URL in Konqueror (run Konqueror as normal user).

server = servername or IP of the Windows Machine
share = name of the share

In KDE - Konqueror put in the URL smb://server or the complete URL smb://server/share

In a konsole you can see the shares located on a server by:

smbclient -L server

To mount a share in a directory -(with full access for ALL Users) remember this: Mountpoint must exist. If it does not, you must first create directory like this (Name is arbitrary):

mkdir -p /mnt/server_share

Then mount the share - remote filesystem VFAT:

mount -t smbfs -o username=Administrator,fmask=777,dmask=777 //server/share /mnt/server_share

or remote filesystem NTFS:

mount -t smbfs -o username=Administrator,fmask=777,dmask=777,lfs //server/share /mnt/server_share

To terminate the connection, use:

umount /mnt/server_share

If you want to put an entry in /etc/fstab to make the mount easier then insert the following line on that file:

//server/share  /mnt/server_share       smbfs  defaults,username=your_username,password=**********,fmask=777,dmask=777   0   0

How to set up Joatha as Samba-Server

From the Joatha Live-CD all you need to setup/start a simple Samba-Server is the call of the script sambastart, which is also found in KDE-menu under Joatha-Server.

On a HD-Install it is neccessary to adjust the Samba Configuration. Here is a simple example. If you want to know more about the usage of Samba and the setup of a Linux Samba Server advisable to read the Samba Documentation..

To adjust the samba-configuration you do as follows:

you open the file /etc/samba/smb.conf in an editor (e.a. kedit) and enter this:

# Globale Changes - Proposal everything simple as
#possible - no passwords, perform like Windows 9x

[global]
security = share
workgroup = WORKGROUP

# Share without write-permission -important if NTFS Filesystems are to be shared!

[WINDOWS]
comment = Windows Partition
browseable = yes
writable = no
path = /media/hda1 # <-- adjust to your partition
public = yes

# Sharing a partition with permission to write- the partition has to be mounted
# writable - makes sense with e.g. FAT32.

[DATA]
comment = Data Partition (first extended Partition)
browseable = yes
writable = yes
path = /media/hda5
public = yes

Dont forget to save. You can now start/stop samba with

/etc/init.d/samba start

and

/etc/init.d/samba stop

You can also start/stop samba automaticaly at boot-time. Issue this call:

update.rc.d samba defaults

Now samba starts when you boot and stops when you shutdown.