Samba shares on windows

You can install Samba client utilities to your CentOS 7 machines from which you want to mount the Samba shares from smb-server machine. All your shares should be listed. If you want, you can add more shares. Note: I did everything while SELinux was disabled.

Working with SELinux is out of the scope of this article. Thanks for reading this article. I was born in Bangladesh. I had found many suggestions to turn on the SMB 1. This is what worked for me and I hope that it makes life easier for someone else.

Thanks for the comment. However, my article was written to prevent people from re-enabling the unsecure SMB 1 protocol. Microsoft disabled it through Windows Update for a very good reason.

I would point people to this article if you are having issues viewing Samba shares from Windows It appears that gpedit. Also, Windows 10 Home edition does not have gpedit. One thing I would add. If you are having this issue and you are using Windows 10 Home, gpedit. Link to instructions below. For me, the solution was to update the registry and set both AllowInsecureGuestAuth to 1 and RequireSecuritySignature to 0, all the threads that came up in my searches and I tried for hours mentioned setting AllowInsecureGuestAuth to 1 or changing the Enable insecure guest logons in the group policy as this article details, but none of this worked for me until I also set RequireSecuritySignature to 0.

This is the solution that worked for me! Thanks for posting. I had Windows10 Home versions that were not getting error, but main PC is Windows10 Pro and threw an error every time. Interestingly Home does not have this Registry value avoiding the problem. Thank you! I did a search of RequireSecuritySignature and chamged all the instances to 0.

Let's check if we can access our shares from the server. We can use either the hostname or ip address of the server. If you use the hostname , make sure DNS is working. Create a directory that we can use as our mount point. You may need to configure SELinux on that directory.

Let's make that directory mount persistently so it can withstand a reboot. The other option is to create a credential file. You can call this file anything, but I would like to call it cred. I would like to place credentials files in the home directory of the user.

Clients may hang during the boot process if the system encounters any difficulties with the network. We need to create a local user account on the Windows machine that matches the username and password of the Samba user account we created in my previous article. Although account creation is not necessary, this will make things simpler when accessing the share. Like I mentioned above, this step is optional and you can skip it completely. Although there are multiple approaches to adding a new local user on a Windows machine, for the simplicity of this article I will be using PowerShell.

Launch PowerShell as an administrator and issue following commands:. To get started with sharing Ubuntu folder so users on Windows 11 can access, follow the steps below:. Then right-click on the Command Prompt apps and select Run as administrator.

Now that file sharing is enabled in Windows, go and install Samba. Samba enables files and printer sharing on Ubuntu systems.