Enable the Samba service

[balubeto]

Hi

I have a LAN with Windows computers managed by a computer with pfSense 2.0.2 64-bit working as a firewall.

As I do to enable the Samba service to share one or more directories of the firewall with Windows computers on the LAN?

Thanks

Bye

[jimp]

There is no samba service, nor a samba package. That isn't possible.

If you need to access files on your firewall, use SCP. (Covered on the wiki, the book, and elsewhere on the forum.)

[balubeto]

@jimp:

There is no samba service, nor a samba package. That isn't possible.

If you need to access files on your firewall, use SCP. (Covered on the wiki, the book, and elsewhere on the forum.)

In the Wiki, I can not find the guide on the SCP. How come?

Thanks

Bye

[stephenw10]

http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/HOWTO:_Access_pfSense_filesystems_remotely_with_scp

Not a huge amount there but it has everything you need to know.

Steve

[johnpoz]

Or you can just use sftp as well to access.

[balubeto]

@johnpoz:

Or you can just use sftp as well to access.

Sorry but how do I configure an SFTP server?

Thanks

Bye

[cmb]

@balubeto:

Sorry but how do I configure an SFTP server?

same as scp

[johnpoz]

sftp from what I recall is on by default - I don't think I had to configure anything to allow for it?  Just connected to it using root as name which is spelled out in the above doc link - well I use public key auth, so I am sure I set that up and turned off password auth..  That is just plain common setup practice for any ssh device - at least for me.

I don't recall ever not being able to scp or sftp to any bsd/linux box that has ssh enabled as long as had creds to auth with.  Sure you can disable them on sshd config, but I believe they are part of default features allowed.

Fire up your fav sftp client, be it winscp, filezilla, etc. and point it to your pfsense box that has ssh enabled and use root with admin users password and you should be good to go be it you use scp or sftp as protocol