Setup Network Shares

Install Samba

sudo apt install samba

Configure Samba

• Backup Samba Config

sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf ~

• Create folder for share

mkdir ~/folder_to_share

• Edit config see pattern below of config file after you open it

sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

• Restart samba for changes to take effect

sudo service smbd restart

Permissions

IMPORTANT: ENSURE THE USER HAS PERMISSIONS TO ALL PARENT FOLDERS LEADING TO THE SHARED FOLDER.

Permissions are controlled using OS Users and Groups see User and Groups for how to add users and put them into groups. Typically, you’ll want to use special purpose users that are not able to log in locally. Also you probably want to set their logon password to something unusable like a random string of characters.

Set samba password for a user

sudo smbpasswd -a user

See users configured to use samba

Leave off -v if you do not want verbose output

sudo pdbedit -L -v