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