How to configure Samba in Oracle Solaris 10

Samba comes installed with Oracle Solaris 10. We only have to configure it according to our needs. Following are steps to properly configure samba according to our needs.

You can verify that samba packages are already installed in Oracle Solaris 10 by following command.

1. pkginfo -x | grep -i samba

SUNWsmbac    samba - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX (client)
SUNWsmbar    samba - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX (Root)
SUNWsmbau    samba - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX (Usr)

2. You can check the location of samba config file by following command

pkgchk -l SUNWsmbar | grep conf-example

Pathname: /etc/samba/smb.conf-example

3. Check current state of samba

svcs -a | grep samba

disabled       Feb_22   svc:/network/samba:default

4. Try to enable samba

svcadm enable samba

maintenance    10:27:33 svc:/network/samba:default

It is not enabled, but it is in maintenance mode. You can check the errors encountered while enabling samba by following command.

tail /var/adm/messages

mysystem svc.startd[8]: [ID 652011 daemon.warning] svc:/network/samba:default: Method "/usr/sbin/smbd -D" failed with exit status 1

It means samba failed to start, it most likely due to missing config file.

5. Now copy the sample config file and modify it

cp /etc/samba/smb.conf-example /etc/samba/smb.conf

By default config file is readonly, so make is right able by following command.

chmod 0777 /etc/samba/smb.conf

vi /etc/samba/smb.conf

Add following section in smb.conf file.

[myshare]
comment = My Share
force user = oracle
path = /u01/app/oracle
writeable = no
guest ok = yes

now save file and exit vi.

6. Now change the rights on smb.conf file as before

chmod 0444 /etc/samba/smb.conf

7. Now try to disable samba

svcadm disable samba
svcs -a | grep samba
disabled       10:41:49 svc:/network/samba:default

8. Now try to enable samba again

svcadm enable samba
svcs -a | grep samba
online         10:42:04 svc:/network/samba:default

9. Now set password for oracle user to use "myshare". 

smbpasswd -a oracle

10. Now on windows try to map drive

net use O: \\192.168.1.20\myshare

Configuration of samba completes.