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Installing Samba on Ubuntu

What is samba?

Samba is an easy way to share files over Linux And Windows environment. Samba is presented by samba.org and is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.

Installing Samba.

lets update first the repositories.

open a terminal and type the following :

sudo apt-get update

now install samba

sudo apt-get install samba

now lets edit the configuration file of samba, but before that lets backup the initial configuration file.

cd /etc/samba/

sudo mv smb.conf backsmb.conf

Setup public folder:

First we will create the configuration for a share folder accessible from everyone without any user need it

sudo nano smb.conf

for that add the following to this file:

[global] workgroup = Workgroup server string = My Samba Share %v security = user map to guest = bad user dns proxy = no

[ShareFolder] comment = This is a folder accessible from everyone path = /sharefolder browsable = yes guest ok = yes read only = no create mask = 0755

next we need to create the directory that will host the share folder and change the user permissions

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