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If you are looking for a full Samba LDAP installation, please look elsewhere, this is a simple set-up to access files from an existing Windows or Samba server.
# apt-get install smbfs smbclient
$ echo "username=abc" >> /home/username/.smbpassword $ echo "password=p455w0rd" >> /home/username/.smbpassword $ chmod go-rwx /home/username/.smbpassword
Edit /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information. # #proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 //hostname/D$ /media/shared cifs auto,rw,uid=trident,gid=users,fmask=0664,dmask=0775,iocharset=iso8859-15,credentials=/home/user/.smbpassword 0 0
Having done this, I find that you have to issue a:
$ sudo mount -a
This simply remounts any unmounted filesystems from /etc/fstab.
$ sudo mount -t cifs //hostname/D$ /media/drive_d -o username=..,password=...,auto,rw,uid=...,gid=...,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775,iocharset=iso8859-15 $ sudo mount -t cifs //hostname/D$ /media/drive_d -o auto,rw,uid=...,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775,iocharset=iso8859-15,credentials=/home/user/.smbpasswd $ sudo umount /media/drive_d
You unmount by referencing the mount point.
$ sudo umount /media/drive_d
There is a bug in OpenOffice which prevents you from being able to open documents by clicking on the file from within a Samba share. To fix this replace the default %U switch with %f in the KDE Menu configuration editor - right click over the KDE start menu -> Menu Editor; next find every occurrence of the OO suite and replace %U with %f.
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