Installing Samba on Ubuntu

SAMBA

Samba is an easy way to share files over Linux And Windows environment. Samba is presented by samba.org and is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.

INSTALLING SAMBA

Lets Update first the repositories.

Open a Terminal and type the following :

alexandria@root# apt-get update

Now install samba

alexandria@root# apt-get install samba

Now lets edit the configuration file of samba, but before that lets backup the initial configuration file.

alexandria@root# cd /etc/samba/

alexandria@root# cp smb.conf backsmb.conf

Setup public folder:

First we will create the configuration for a share folder accessible from everyone without any user need it

alexandria@root# nano smb.conf

Add the following to this file:

#
[global]
workgroup = Workgroup
server string = My Samba Share %v
security = user
map to guest = bad user
dns proxy = no
#
[ShareFolder]
comment = This is a folder accessible from everyone
path = /sharefolder
browsable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = no
create mask = 0755

Next we need to create the directory that will host the share folder and change the user permissions

alexandria@root# mkdir /sharefolder

alexandria@root# chown -R nobody:nogroup /sharefolder/

alexandria@root# chmod 755 /sharefolder/

Now lets restart the samba server

alexandria@root# /etc/init.d/samba restart

Normally at that point you should be able to access this share folder from Linux or Windows without any user credentials

NOTE:-

In older versions of samba in order to restart samba server you need to run “sudo /etc/init.d/smbd restart”

CREATING PRIVITE FOLDER ONLY FOR UNIX USERS

Lets first create the a User named smbuser:

alexandria@root# useradd smbuser

lets create a password for smbuser that will be used for accessing the samba share

alexandria@root# smbpasswd -a smbuser

now the directory for that user:

alexandria@root# mkdir /smbuserdir

alexandria@root# chown -R smbuser /smbuserdir/

alexandria@root# chmod 755 /smbuserdir/

edit the samba config again:

alexandria@root# nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

Add the following:

#

[smbuserdir]
comment = This is a folder accessible from smbuser

path = /smbuserdir
browsable = yes
guest ok = no
read only = no
create mask = 0755

now restart samba deamon

alexandria@root# /etc/init.d/samba restart

In order to access the share folder you need to use for username: “smbuser” and for password the password you create when you add the user.

All Done!