April 2016
Beginner
174 pages
3h 46m
English
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The Samba service
Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol, which is mostly used on computers running Microsoft Windows. It is basically a way of allowing a Windows computer to connect to Linux systems and access their shared files or printers. It is not created by Windows and was originally developed by Andrew Tridgell.
If you want to share media from Linux with other Windows computers on your network, Samba is the best software option.
Installing and configuring Samba
You need to install Samba and a common library that is used by Samba using the following command line:
sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin
You can then navigate to /etc/samba and edit the smb.conf file. On a private network for personal use, you may skip ...