Summary:
Tutorials used as reference:
Ubuntu - Setup Samba
1 - Installing Samba
To install Samba, we run:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install samba
We can check if the installation was successful by running:
whereis samba
2 - Setting up Samba
Now that Samba is installed, we need to create a directory for it to share:
mkdir /home/username/sambashare/
The configuration file for Samba is located at /etc/samba/smb.conf. To add the new directory as a share, we edit the file by running:
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
At the bottom of the file, add the following lines:
[sambashare]
comment = Samba on Ubuntu
path = /home/username/sambashare
read only = no
browsable = yes
Then press Ctrl-O to save and Ctrl-X to exit from the nano text editor.
Now that we have our new share configured, save it and restart Samba for it to take effect:
sudo service smbd restart
Update the firewall rules to allow Samba traffic:
sudo ufw allow samba
3 - Setting up users
Since Samba doesn’t use the system account password, we need to set up a Samba password for our user account:
sudo smbpasswd -a username
Note: Username used must belong to a system account, else it won’t save.
If we want other users to access, we have to create them:
sudo useradd username1
After we filled their information, we give them a Samba password:
sudo smbpasswd -a username
4 - Access the share
On Windows, open up File Manager and edit the file path to:
\\192.168.1.6\sambashare