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Learning RHEL Networking

You're reading from   Learning RHEL Networking Gain Linux administration skills by learning new networking concepts in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785287831
Length 216 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Enterprise Linux 7 FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring Network Settings 3. Configuring Key Network Services 4. Implementing iSCSI SANs 5. Implementing btrfs 6. File Sharing with NFS 7. Implementing Windows Shares with Samba 4 8. Integrating RHEL 7 into Microsoft Active Directory Domains 9. Deploying the Apache HTTPD Server 10. Securing the System with SELinux 11. Network Security with firewalld Index

The Samba client on RHEL 7


Currently, my firewall service is disabled, so I do not need to be concerned with the firewall; however, I will only need to add in the TCP port 445 and 139 or the samba service.

If we install the Samba client package, we can list all the shares available to a given user. This is shown in the following command extract:

$ sudo yum install -y samba-client
$ smbclient -U andrew -L //localhost

Once the Samba client is installed, we can use it to log in as andrew; we will be prompted for the password and to list shares on the localhost. We should see the listed home directory coming from the [homes] special share section. This is always there by default. We will see the output as expected, not the share name andrew, as shown in the following screenshot:

Of course, we can leave it here and hide the fact that there are some SELinux traps with the current setup. We can connect to a share, but SELinux will prevent access to the users' home directories. While Chapter 10, Securing...

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