Samba setup

Modified: 01/01/2014 10:00

Created: 01/01/2014 10:00

This guide is written for Samba3 as that is what I have on my system. Samba4 does not need a system user for every samba user.

Installation

apt-get install samba

Setup

The sambaconfiguration file is located in /etc/samba/smb.conf

An example block for a share:

[Storage]
    path = /storage
    browsable = yes
    guest ok = no
    read only = yes
    write list = kradalby
    valid users = kradalby meepo

Note: This block contains overlapping settings, do not, for example, use writable with write list.

Adding users

To add a user in samba3:

smbpasswd -a username

To add a user in samba4:

samba-tool user add username

Miscellaneous

Follow symlinks

Samba is configured by default not to follow symlinks because of security. If you want to activate it still, add the following to the [global] section.

follow symlinks = yes
wide links = yes
unix extensions = no