How To Set-Up SAMBA File Sharing Server on Ubuntu

Samba is free open source software for Linux. by which you can easily transfer your files and folders and also secure ways you can provide printing and files server to your all the clients.

To install and configure samba on ubuntu just follow my steps.

1. Install Ubuntu Update

sudo apt update

2. Install SAMBA packages on Ubuntu Linux

sudo apt install samba

3. Create director to share using SAMBA

mkdir /home/username/sambashare

4. Configure and Edit smb.conf file

sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

[sambashare]
comments = Samba on Ubuntu
path = /home/username/sambashare
read only = no
browsable = yes

5. Restart SAMBA services

sudo service smbd restart 

6. Add firewall rules for SAMBA

sudo ufw allow samba

7. Create user and password for SAMBA

sudo smbpasswd -a username

8. Disable Firewall Rules

sudo ufw disable

9. Enable Firewall Rules

sudo ufw enable 

10. Install net-tools to check ip address

sudo apt install net-tools

11. Check IP address by using ifconfig command

ifconfig

12. Check status of SAMBA smbd service

sudo systemctl status smbd