Enable Samba Server in Ubuntu 10.10 (or 10.04)

Samba server provides a simple and convenient way of sharing files between your Linux machine and your Windows network. You can use tasksel to install samba without much fuss, if you haven’t installed tasksel already, go ahead and install it by doing

sudo apt-get install tasksel

Now launch it

sudo tasksel

use arrow keys to select the Samba file server option and hit space bar to select it (“*” should show against it) hit tab to select ok and press spacebar to continue with the installation.

To share folders via samba all you need to do is, right click on the folder you want to share and choose sharing options

Just tick the share this folder box, you can also specify the name for the share, and choose whether you want to give write permissions. If you don’t want to have to enter password to access the folder, make sure you tick the Guest access box.

If you want to modify the WORKGROUP and  other setting, you can do so by modifying the Samba configuration file located in /etc/samba/ folder. Before editing this file, it is advisable to back it up by doing

sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf smb.conf_backup

You can edit the configuration file by using any editor like gedit

gksudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

File is self explanatory, after you are done making your changes, you can restart the samba server to reflect those changes by running the following command

sudo service smbd restart

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