Debian Wheezy: mounting windows shared folder

First of all install cifs-utils smbclient packets, to browse and mount net folders..
So from command line:
apt-get install smbclient cifs-utils

Then you need to create a local folder to map remote folder
mkdir /home/username/example_folder

Then you can mount the remote folder by executing this:
mount -t cifs -o username=remote_pc_username //remote_pc_ip_address/remote_folder_shared_name /home/username/example_folder

Where:
remote_pc_username is the username of remote pc
remote_pc_ip_address is the remote ip address
remote_folder_shared_name is the name that the shared folder has into the local net.

Example 2:
mount -t cifs -o username=pippo //192.168.1.2/shared /home/pluto/example_folder


Terminal will prompts to you the password request....
Give it and then you will have correctly mapped your remote folder into your local example_folder


Bye..

Debian Wheezy 7.1: quick samba setup

From command line

apt-get install samba smbclient

during installation, it performs default configuration

after....

adduser guest --home=/home/public --shell=/bin/false --disabled-password

to create a guest user to use only as samba default user...

chmod -R 0700 /home/public
chown -R guest.guest /home/public

These commands configure the sharing in way of every user can create a content(file or folder)

into the shared folder.

No one may edit the content created by someone others.... 

If you want some of differently, change the permission mask.....

Now edit /etc/samba/smb.conf

adding after the row obey pam restrictions = yes

insert these rows: 

guest account = guest
invalid users = root

and in the *Authentication* section,  this row.....: 

security = share

In the sharing section add:

# SHARED DIR
[shared]
   comment = shared
   read only = no
   path = /home/public
   guest ok = yes
   guest only = yes
   create mask = 0600
   directory mask = 0700
 

Fine...... restart samba:

 /etc/init.d/samba restart

and all is done.....

Bye...

Mounting windows remote folder(already shared in the network))

Suppose you have a directory on a windows machine, shared in the network.

We want to point, and mount, this folder, in read/write mode, on our Debain system.

We need the smbfs and samba-common packages.

apt-get install smbfs samba-common

echo 'smbfs' >> /etc/modules

mkdir /home/pippo/empty_directory
mount -t smbfs -o username=pippo //windows_machine_ip/remote_and_shared_folder /home/pippo/empty_directory 

or

mount -t smbfs -o username=pippo,password=pluto //windows_machine_ip/remote_and_shared_folder /home/pippo/empty_directory

If you want that the folder should be mounted automatically at the system startup edit the /etc/fstab file and

insert the below line:

//windows_machine_ip/remote_and_shared_folder /home/pippo/empty_directory smbfs defaults,user,noauto,username=pippo,password=pluto 0 0
 

For a most detailed guide refer to this page

Debain 6.0.4: quick samba installation and configuration

Here is a quick description to how to install samba server and configure it in order to share folder on the network.

Giving 
apt-cache search samba
results:

[...]

libsmbclient-dev - development files for libsmbclient
libsmbclient - shared library for communication with SMB/CIFS servers
libwbclient0 - Samba winbind client library
samba-common-bin - common files used by both the Samba server and client
samba-common - common files used by both the Samba server and client
samba-dbg - Samba debugging symbols
samba-doc-pdf - Samba documentation in PDF format
samba-doc - Samba documentation
samba-tools - Samba testing utilities
samba - SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix
smbclient - command-line SMB/CIFS clients for Unix
swat - Samba Web Administration Tool
winbind - Samba nameservice integration server
smb2www - SMB/CIFS network client with a web interface

[...]

So run

apt-get install samba smbfs smbclient

to install these three packets....

during installation, it performs default configuration

after....

So next commands.....

adduser guest --home=/home/public --shell=/bin/false --disabled-password

to create a guest user to use only as samba default user....

chmod -R 0700 /home/public

chown -R guest.guest /home/public

These commands configure the sharing in way of every user can create a content(file or folder)

into the shared folder.

No one may edit the content created by something others.... 

If you want some of differently, change the permission mask.....

Now edit /etc/samba/smb.conf

adding after the row 

obey pam restrictions = yes

insert these others rows: 

guest account = guest
invalid users = root

and in the ****Authorization**** section,  these two rows.....: 

; security = user

security = share

In the sharing section add:

# SHARED DIR
[shared]
   comment = shared
   read only = no
   path = /home/public
   guest ok = yes
   guest only = yes
   create mask = 0600
   directory mask = 0700
 

Fine...... restart samba:

 /etc/init.d/samba restart

and all is done.....

 Bye....