On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 17:43 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 12:35 +0900, Earl A Ramirez wrote: > > > Clearly this could be done using Samba or NFS. Is there an easier > > > way? > > > > Personally I have been using Samba, haven't seen an easier way. > > Yes, that seems to be the way to go. I'm almost there (having figured > out that I needed to open a hole in the host firewall), just having a > problem getting the guest to authenticate. I don't understand CIFS > passwords :-( > > poc First you will need a local account on for this I usually create a user without any shell access $ sudo useradd -s /sbin/nologin smbuser Then you will have to create the samba user $ sudo smbpasswd -a smbuser start both samba services: $ sudo systemctl start smb; sudo systemctl start nmb Open up the firewall ports $ sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=samba $ sudo firewall-cmd --reload A very basic mount of the samba share $ sudo mount -t cifs -o username=smbuser,password=yoursmbpassword //192.168.124.1/smbshare /mnt/smbshare You can also use auto mount to achieve this or fstab; you can also use a credential file and only give root read only access. if you are sharing your home directory don't forget to enable the SELinux boolean $ sudo setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs 1 Let me know if this helps -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
