Adding Samba to your Linux Digital Signage Player

Add Samba File Sharing to your Linux Digital Signage Player

Once your linux digital signage player pc built, you can add samba file sharing if you like. This typically is not done, but can be a nice option for making changes the the digital signage player.

Create Users and Groups

• If desired, create a new group with groupadd <groupname>
• Create the users that will log in with useradd username <-c user comment> <-G primary group, alt group 1, alt group 2> -n -m -p password (probably best to use -G users,www)
• To list the groups a user is in, type groups username
• Edit the /etc/samba/smbusers file to include the new users
• Create the Samba password file with smbpasswd -a username and enter the password
• Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf as follows (pay special attention to the yellow areas for changes):

Allow Samba through the Firewall

• Go to firewall configuration and add Netbios server and samba server to the appropriate zone (demilitarized or external)
• Modify the firewall broadcast configuration and enter 192.168.200.0/24 for samba browsing in the demilitarized zone
• Go to system, etc/sysconfig editor, network, firewall, susefirewall2.  Find FW_TRUSTED_NETS and type 192.168.200.0/24,udp,1024:1124
• Restart the service with /ect/init.d/samba restart or services smb restart and services nmb restart

To Share a Network Connection With Other Computers

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Internet/ConnectionSharing

Other Handy Commands