Chapter 14. SHARING FILES WITH SAMBA

Your Linux machine probably doesn't live alone on your network. If you have a PC running Windows, it's only natural that you would want to permit access to your Linux system's files and printers from those Windows machines with the standard Windows network protocol, SMB (Server Message Block). Mac OS X also supports SMB filesharing.

The standard filesharing software suite for Unix is called Samba. Not only does Samba allow your network's Windows computers to get to your Linux system, but it works the other way around — you can print and access files on Windows servers from your Linux machine with the included client software.

To set up a Samba server, you need to perform these steps:

  1. Create an smb.conf file.

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