Think I never mentioned it but I have a small home server, it was built with a c2d E6600, an Intel G965 mobo and some HDDs.
Since 2 weeks ago I was using Ubuntu then I decided it was time to try something better and more challenging than Ubuntu, my choice was CentOS.
Why use CentOS ? Because it’s one of the best enterprise class distro with 7 years support and have a good ammount of interesting features like services GUI manager and iptables GUI.
I don’t consider myself a Unix pro nor a noob but I’ve to say that the first touch with this distro wasn’t the best.
In fact I had lots of trouble trying to install CentOS from USB drive, after had lost 1 hour or so I took a DVD drive, burned the ISO on a DVD and installed from it.
When finally I was able to get into the OS the first thing I did was installing XRDP to remote control the machine from one of my other PCs.
I also installed Transmission torrent client, added some iptables rules and did some other things.
Everything was quite easy except the installation and configuration of Samba server, to be honest I didn’t remember well what I did to make it works on Ubuntu but here on CentOS it gave me some troubles.
Google this time wasn’t that helpful, there aren’t much info or guides about Samba on CentOS, so I think I should write here how I made it works.
First of all, we have to install Samba, open the terminal, get admin privileges and type: <pre name=“code” class"ruby"> yum install samba
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