Installing Samba from the command line
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Basic Samba install & minimal configuration
(Assuming you'll replace USER with your own username...)
mkdir ~/sharetouch ~/share/Foo
Install Samba
sudo apt install samba -y
sudo vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
[New_share]
comment= my share
path = /home/USER/share
force create mode = 0660 ; readable and writable by user and group
force directory mode = 0770 ; readable, writable and searchable by user and group
browseable = yes
Read only = no
guest ok = yes
Note: Files & folders placed in this share by an anonymous user will belong to nobody:nogroup.
- oddly, even as the owner of the share, you won't have direct control over these files/folders.
- So, it might be a good idea to add yourself to the nogroup group:
sudo usermod -a -G nogroup USER
[New_share]
comment= my share
path = /home/USER/share
browseable = yes
Read only = no
guest ok = no
Restart Samba
While you're in there, if you don't have printer(s) connected to the machine, comment out or remove the [printers] and [print$] blocks
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...)
For each user that will be allowed access (USERs must exist as users on the system),
sudo smbpasswd -a USER
Additional bits to install
Client & utils & such... (optional)
In order to be able to mount CIFS (Samba, Windows...) shares from other servers
sudo apt install cifs-utils -y
For some reason...
sudo apt install samba-client -y
seems to be recommended. Gonna hafta research what that actually provides.
Usage Notes
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.
sudo smbstatus --shares
Ongoing Research
Still need to find a way for Samba to properly show up when browsing the network...