Creating SAMBA Shares and Security

September 2, 2008 VM, Vm Desktop, Gentoo, Linux, Computer Security, Linux No Comments

VirtualBoxSo why do I want to share out Samba Shares. This is for VirtualBox, to increase the speed of writing, and also to keep VirtualBox disks small as they can be a bit of a pain to compress.

So to start things off you need to make sure that Samba is on the system. If you have installed Samba before then that is great, if not then this is your chance to emerge it.

After Samba is emerged we need to modify the configuration file. By default there is no configuration file in /etc/samba but there is an example file that can be copied over. For me I copied the file over, but since it is huge I am only going to cut out the pertinent parts and explain them.

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