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Install Samba in Debian
#apt-get install samba samba-common samba-client
This will start samba installation and prompted for the following questions
First you need to enter the Workgroup/Domain Name in this example i am using ruchi select ok and press enter
Preparing directories and users
Create directories for Samba to use with Windows
#mkdir windowsshare
Now we need to create users to access this directiory
#useradd david
Now create a password for this user using the following command
#smbpasswd -a david
Samba configuration
By default samba configuration file located at /etc/samba/smb.conf
In this file main section is Global where you can define all parameters and the example as follows
[global]
workgroup = ruchi
netbios name = fileserver
server string = %h server (Samba %v)
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
syslog = 0
#apt-get install samba samba-common samba-client
This will start samba installation and prompted for the following questions
First you need to enter the Workgroup/Domain Name in this example i am using ruchi select ok and press enter
Preparing directories and users
Create directories for Samba to use with Windows
#mkdir windowsshare
Now we need to create users to access this directiory
#useradd david
Now create a password for this user using the following command
#smbpasswd -a david
Samba configuration
By default samba configuration file located at /etc/samba/smb.conf
In this file main section is Global where you can define all parameters and the example as follows
[global]
workgroup = ruchi
netbios name = fileserver
server string = %h server (Samba %v)
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
syslog = 0
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