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• Basic setting up for Ubuntu, sharing the whole home directory

Basic setting up for Ubuntu, sharing the whole home directory

sudo apt-get install samba

Configure /etc/samba/smb.conf. Keep most settings default, just edit Share Definitions like following:

sudo vim /etc/samba/smb.conf

#======================= Share Definitions =======================

# Un-comment the following (and tweak the other settings below to suit)
# to enable the default home directory shares. This will share each
# user's home directory as \\server\username
[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = yes

# By default, the home directories are exported read-only. Change the
# next parameter to 'no' if you want to be able to write to them.
   read only = no

# File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
# create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
   create mask = 0700

# Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
# create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
   directory mask = 0700

# Creates a user for samba. will prompt for password
sudo smbpasswd -a <username>

# Restart samba service
sudo systemctl restart smbd.service, nmbd.service