Installing Samba from the command line

Proven on:

11 (bullseye)

Basic Samba install & minimal configuration

Create a test folder & file to be shared. (Assuming you'll replace USER with your own username...)

• mkdir ~USER/share
• touch ~USER/share/Foo

Install Samba

• sudo apt install samba -y

Configure the test share

• sudo vi /etc/samba/smb.conf

[New_share]
    comment= my share
    path = /home/USER/share
    browseable  = yes
    Read only = no
    guest  ok = no
    valid users = USER     # This user is the only one who can access toe share

• sudo systemctl restart smbd

Set up usernames & passwords for Samba acess (Samba uses it's own password list.  Therefore, you'll need to set up each user...)

• sudo smbpasswd -a USER

Additional bits to install (Client & utils & such...)

• sudo apt install cifs-utils samba-client -y

NOTE: At this point, the share can be accessed, but you need to know where it is because Samba does not advertise it's presence.

You can see the shares from the machine by entering smb://MACHINENAME/ into the address bar of your file browser.