A basic Samba server on Ubuntu

For our development environment, we are recently switched to a common LAMP server on Ubuntu OS.

To access the server space from developer machines, we have to install & configure the Samba suite on the Server.

Install Samba server

sudo apt-get install samba

Configure Samba

Copy default Samba configuartion file as back up

sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.backup

Edit Samba configuarion file with minumum configuration

sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

Replace current content with below one

[global]
   log file = /var/log/samba-log.%m
   lock directory = /var/lock/samba
   share modes = yes

[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = no
   read only = no
   create mode = 0750

Set a psswaord for Samba user

sudo smbpasswd -a <user_name>

Create a home folder for user

mkdir /home/<user_name>/<folder_name>

Restart Samba

sudo service smbd restart

Now you can use the file explorer window like \\<your_server_ip>\<user_name>\ in Windows Machine or smb:\\<your_server_ip>\<user_name>\ in Linux & MAC.

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This article was published on August 24, 2017

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