MorphOS has built-in support for mounting Samba shares but cannot serve files over Samba itself. However, there is a Samba package for MorphOS dating back to 2007 that should work fine. The following guide is based off a German board post and documents how a Samba server could be setup on MorphOS.

• samba-3.0.4-morphos
• samba-upd-morphos

The first step is to download the Samba 3.0.4 MorphOS package and unpack it to RAM:. After that, download the MorphOS Samba update package and unpack it to RAM:. The second package just contains a binary called samba-upd-morphos that must be copied to RAM:samba/sbin/smbd.

After that, a location should be chosen where a folder can be created to host the Samba install. For example, SYS:Tools/AmiTCP could be the folder hosting the Samba install so now copy the samba folder from RAM: to SYS:Tools/AmiTCP:

copy all clone RAM:sam#? SYS:Tools/AmiTCP

Now, edit S:user-network-startup and add the following line:

assign amitcp: SYS:Tools/AmiTCP

This line is for Samba but for all software that uses ixemul.library, that is, the Unix-Amiga emulation library that takes care of resolving assets between Unix and the Amiga such as drive letters, paths and shell escape sequences.

Now a guest user has to be created that will be allowed to browse shares. For that, access the menu Settings -> System... and click the icon looking like a yellow key. Change the tab first to users and set up a user named pcguest as follows.

• User: pcguest,
• User ID: 1001,
• Group ID: 1001,
• Home Dir: ram:,
• Shell: nologin

then, switch to the groups tab and set up a group named pcguest as follows.

• Group: pcguest,
• Group ID: 1001,
• Users: pcguest

Inetd will be running the smbd, respectively nmbd services on demand and the services have to be added. For that, change directory in a shell to ENVARC:sys/net and edit inetd.conf in order to append the two following lines:

netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root amitcp:samba/sbin/smbd smbd
netbios-ns dgram udp wait root amitcp:samba/sbin/nmbd nmbd

that set up two services netbios-ssn for streams and netbios-ns for Samba datagrams.

Note that if the guide has been followed correctly, both amitcp:samba/sbin/smbd and amitcp:samba/sbin/nmbd excusables should exist. It's easy to test, perhaps by opening another shell and then writing:

list amitcp:samba/sbin/smbd

respectively

list amitcp:samba/sbin/nmbd

to check that the files exist.

Now, the services must be allowed by the ancient host/deny security mechanism from Unix that Amiga via ixemul.library supports. In order to do that, edit the file inet.access in ENVARC:sys/net and add at the end:

netbios-ssn	*.*.*.*				allow		
netbios-ns	*.*.*.*				allow		

The last step is to configure Samba itself and add some shares by editing AmiTCP:lib/smb.conf to match the following configuration:

[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = COMPUTER_NAME
server string = COMPUTER_NAME
security = SHARE
log file = /amitcp/Samba/log/log.%m
max log size = 500
load printers = No
local master = No
guest account = pcguest
guest only = Yes
guest ok = Yes
map to guest = Bad User

[ram]
comment=ram
path = /ram/
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
browsable = yes
guest ok = yes

where:

• COMPUTER_NAME should be set to the name of the MacOS computer,
• WORKGROUP can be set to the local LAN network in case it exists

This configuration will allow anyone to access the RAM disk-drive of the Amiga MorphOS via the network without being prompted for credentials.

It is of course possible to edit AmiTCP:samba/lib/smb.conf and extend the number of shares just by duplicating:

[ram]
comment=ram
path = /ram/
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
browsable = yes
guest ok = yes

and specifying a different path instead of /ram/, for example /dh1 for the first SYS: boot-drive.