Samba: share Linux Folders with your windows machines

This is a video on how to share Linux Folders with your Windows machines. I use a program called Samba to share the folders so that they are surfable in a NetBios (network neighborhood) fashion. This is a command line video however if you have Webmin installed on your server you can also configure it in a similar fashion using a web interface. You can also try tweaking the config file for Samba to better suit your needs. This is a very simple setup.

The commands are...
sudo apt-get install samba

cd /

sudo mkdir realname

sudo chown techno:techno realname

ls -l

sudo smbpasswd -a techno

sudo vim /etc/samba/smb.conf

[sharedname]
path = /realname
available = yes
valid users = techno
read only = no
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes

sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

ifconfig

cd sharename

ls -l

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[jonathanjduncan]

For some reason i dont have samba restart file in my init.d directory. I just reboot the whole machine, but the server wont work so im thinking the samba restart i really important. Any ideas?

[technoblogical]

@jonathanjduncan The Samba would have restarted with the reboot. You could always try to uninstall and reinstall samba (sudo apt-get remove samba). Maybe something went corrupt in your installation.

[Lucasabusharkh361]

where is the smb.conf located and what should be in there? and about the last part of the video when the text file is created i cant edit it on my other machine what do i need to change?

[technoblogical]

All the commands that I use are in the video description..

[ForeverWiked]

What if I just want to share between Linux machines? Will this work too?

[PrEmIsBoReD]

can you post ur conf file on the description or smth

cuz i think smth's wrong

[mangokat]

thanks man! you seriously saved my life with this. been googling for HOURS and nothing worked. now it's perfect! :D

[jcao219]

Thank you!

[cbjma]

Thanks. All the other examples I saw relied on the GUI and mine is a server only. Worked perfectly.

[c2itcurlyfry]

when i type in sudo vim /etc/samba/smb. conf it dose not show me the screen that shows my workgroup. how do i fix that?

[DerCerberus]

Great video tutorial techno, thanks :D

[Boxofclocks]

Hey, thanks for the video. I'm confused over the difference between the GUI & the manual setup you do in the video. Your method in the video works, but the GUI is so much easier. If I set 'public' in GUI it's a snap, but I don't want 'public'. Your manual method does what I want (with password protection), but it's a pain. Do you know if I can set password protection with the GUI.

The missing piece for the GUI setup is the user/pass, which I guess I'm not doing right, because nothing works.