[global] workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu) netbios name = LINUX-SERVER map to guest = bad user dns proxy = no log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 security = user passdb backend = tdbsam
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
sudo useradd -M -s /sbin/nologin smbuser sudo usermod -aG smbgroup smbuser sudo smbpasswd -a smbuser # Set SMB password samba windows
Without Samba, a Windows computer cannot natively see or access files on a Linux server. Samba solves this by making the Linux server "speak" Windows' language. To a Windows user, a Samba share looks just like a standard Windows network folder. [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = %h