Mastering Ubuntu Server - Second Edition

Sharing files with Windows users via Samba

In this section, I'll walk you through setting up your very own Samba file server. I'll also go over a sample configuration to get you started so that you can add your own shares.

First, we'll need to make sure that the samba package is installed on our server:

sudo apt install samba 

When you install the samba package, you'll have a new daemon installed on your server, smbd. The smbd daemon will be automatically started and enabled for you. You'll also be provided with a default configuration file for Samba, located at /etc/samba/smb.conf. For now, I recommend stopping Samba since we have yet to configure it:

sudo systemctl stop smbd 

Since we're going to configure Samba from scratch, we should ...