Installation instructions for vasambashield:

1. Download the file from http://www.centralcommand.com/Downloads.aspx

2. Unpack the file with “tar xfvz vasambashield-x.x.x-xxxxx.tar.gz‿

3. Run the installer with “./vasambashield.install‿

4. Enter “y‿ to continue.

5. Read and agree to the license agreement.

6. Add your registration name and key to /etc/vasambashield/general.conf

registration-name = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
registration-key = XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

7. Edit smb.conf (usually located in /etc/samba/)

For samba 2.x.x, add:
vfs object = /usr/lib/samba/vfs/vasambavfsemu.so

For samba 3.x.x, add:
vfs objects = vasambavfsemu

8. Restart samba.

9. Setup scheduled updates of vasambashield’s definitions. To run the script, you will need the wget program. You can schedule the script to run with cron by adding this line to your /etc/crontab:

0,30 * * * * root /usr/lib/vasambashield/vdbupdate.sh


For further information, please refer to the documentation.

Article ID: 142, Created On: 10/12/2009, Modified: 7/14/2011