Understanding a service well enough to troubleshoot it is an essential skill as a System Administrator. In this lab, we’ll go over troubleshooting a SAMBA installation.
Learning Objectives
Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:
- Ensure the user is added to Samba correctly
pdbedit -LShows us that there are no Samba users on the system.
smbpasswd -a pineheadFails because there is no
pineheaduser on the system.useradd pinehead smbpasswd -a pinehead pdbedit -LNow we have a Samba user named
pinehead. Re-running the mount command works.- Ensure the mount is writable.
- First, we need to add the following line to
/etc/samba/smb.conf:read only = no - Additionally, we need to run these commands to make sure the
/optdirectory (specified in thesmb.conffile) is eligible for writing bypineheadthrough Samba.
chgrp pinehead /opt chmod g+w /opt chcon -t samba_share_t /optOnce those are done, we can run
systemctl restart smband try totouch /mnt/test. It should work perfectly!- First, we need to add the following line to
