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How To Setup Samba/CIFS Share on Fedora Server

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We are going to setup a Samba/CIFS share on Fedora Server that we will then access from Windows 10.

  1. Install Samba/CIFS server packages
  2. Create user to access share
  3. Configure SELinux and firewall
  4. Connect to erver from Windows

1. Install Samba/CIFS Fedora Server Packages

First we need to install the samba package.

sudo dnf install samba
Installing SMB on Fedora
Samba Dependencies

Next, lets enable the Samba service so it automatically starts when the server boots up.

systemctl enable smb nmb
systemctl start smb

nmb is a “NetBIOS name server that provides NetBIOS over IP naming service to clients”
https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/nmbd.8.html

2. Setup Samba/CIFS User

We now need a user to connect to the Samba share with. You can use the commands below to to create a new user.

pdbedit only configures a current Linux system user for Samba. You can skip creating a new Linux user, but only if there is one already created that you can use.

sudo useradd -m sambaUser
sudo passwd sambaUser
sudo pdbedit -a sambaUser

3. Configure Server SELinux and Firewall Permissions

Configure SELinux permissions with the following command.

sudo setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs on

You can also just disable SELinux. Although it is not necessarily recommended.
How To Enable/Disable SELinux

sudo setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs on
sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=samba --permanent
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

4. Test Samba/CIFS Share from Windows

You can now test to see if the share works. Open up Windows Explorer. Type in the IP address of the server and connect. 

\\ip-address\sambaUser

It should prompt you for a login. Enter the user and password you set up.

Connecting to Fedora Samba/CIFS server

If it loads, then congratulations! You have successfully setup a Samba/CIFS Share on Fedora Server. Create new directories or files or whatever else you need.

Successfully Connected to Fedora Samba/CIFS Server

Check out the following links for more information about setting up Samba.

https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-32-simple-local-file-sharing-with-samba/
https://jewelhuq.wordpress.com/2017/12/08/how-to-install-samba-server-in-fedora/

https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-32-simple-local-file-sharing-with-samba/

Where is my software RAID?!

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There are a few different ways to view RAID information on Fedora. Here are two commands that can help.

1. Print Mdadm config

You can copy and past the following command to print the mdadm configuration.

cat /etc/mdadm.conf

It should return something similar to the following.

$ cat /etc/mdadm.conf
# mdadm.conf written out by anacondaMAILADDR root
AUTO +imsm +1.x -all
ARRAY /dev/md/Boot level=raid0 num-devices=6 UUID=21ce258a:015d0dd4:90d5b80e:ab04b7f7
ARRAY /dev/md/Root level=raid0 num-devices=6 UUID=4be32ad0:f3aa77bd:139d749d:4a6aab60

We see from the above output that we have two raid arrays. Both RAID 0 over 6 drives.

2. Print mdstats

You can show the mdstats by running

cat /proc/mdstat

Should get output similar to the following.

$ cat /proc/mdstat
 Personalities : [raid0]
 md126 : active raid0 sdc2[0] sdf2[5] sde2[4] sdd2[1] sda2[2] sdb2[3]
       5856552960 blocks super 1.2 512k chunks
 md127 : active raid0 sdc1[0] sdf1[5] sde1[4] sdd1[1] sdb1[3] sda1[2]
       3133440 blocks super 1.2 512k chunks
 unused devices:

This shows us the RAID size. About 5TB on one and 3GB on the other. The 3GB is used for the boot partition.

Other Notes

Apparently there is a difference between “mdadm” and “dm-raid”
Mdadm is for managing and creating software raids, while dm-raid interacts if a device like a laptop has a “fake RAID”

https://superuser.com/questions/721795/how-fake-raid-communicates-with-operating-systemlinux/721796#721796
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23164384/what-is-the-difference-between-dm-and-md-in-linux-kernel

For more information on managing RAID with Mdadm, you can refer here.

Managing RAID arrays with mdadm

Repairing Fedora grub from chroot

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Notes from repairing a Fedora drive.

Mount system in chroot.

If the system is a raid drive and your not able to access it refer to this post.  May just need to install the raid utilities.

For mounting the chroot environment refer to this post

Repairing grub

yum install grub2-efi-*

Install grub.  Change /sda to your drive, may need to specify the efi partition.

grub2-install /dev/sda

If your boot and efi partitions are mounted.

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg

Reboot.

DNF/YUM not working in chroot environment

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The reason is probably because the chrooted environment can’t resolve DNS.

Test it with

ping incredigeek.com

If it is not resolving, edit “/etc/resolv.conf” and change/add your nameserver.  Or just replace everything in it with

echo "nameserver 4.2.2.2" > /etc/resolv.conf

It should now be able to resolve and you should be able to use yum, or dnf.

yum update

How to install Broadcom WiFi drivers in Fedora 27

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Install RPM Fusion

sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

Install packages

sudo dnf install -y kernel-devel-$(uname -r)
sudo dnf install -y akmodssudo dnf install -y broadcom-wl

Give the computer a reboot and the Broadcom card should now work.