Memento to create Samba servers on Linux systems !

You can install Samba via these commands :

apt install samba -y

For Debian distributions or

dnf install samba -y

For RedHat ones

Of course, your equipment must be connected on a LAN and preferably with a static address.

In fact, it will much easier to access to the samba server if the equipment has a static address not provided by a DHCP server.

Once Samba is downloaded, you have to create the directory where you want users have to access. With mkdir command create the folder. For the example, we will use the directory /home/pi/shared/public.

Then, open with nano or vim the configuration file /etc/samba/smb.conf. Add the following lines :

[MyAwesomeSambaServer]
path = /home/pi/shared/public
writeable=Yes
create mask=0777
directory mask=0777
public=no

Finally, restart the Samba server to load our configuration changes :

sudo systemctl restart smbd

To add a minimum of security, we will create a user with a password to prevent not authorized access to our Samba server. First, enter the command :

sudo smbpasswd -a <name_of_the_user>

Then, enter the password of the user.

To access to your samba server, you will need to get the name of your Samba configuration (in this example : MyAwesomeSambaServer) and the NetBios name or the IP address of the server. This access depends of the operating system.

Follow this tutorial : https://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-map-a-network-drive-in-windows-10

Follow this tutorial : https://www.riohondo.edu/its/how-to-connect-to-a-network-shared-folder-with-mac-os-x/

Follow this tutorial : https://www.ghacks.net/2009/11/04/connect-to-your-samba-server-from-linux/

Updated : 30/08/2022, Author : Xen0rInspire