On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 22:13 +0000, Earl Ramirez wrote: > 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 Thanks for the very complete reply. > 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 For some reason I assumed that systemctl would start nmb automatically with smb. Seems I was wrong. > 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 I'm doing it the other way (mounting a Linux share on a Windows guest) so this part is unnecessary. > 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 Check. > Let me know if this helps It did, I'm a happy camper. Thanks again. poc -- 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
