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Then change to and path = /home/Drop to the path of your new share's directory.ħ. If you want to add additional Samba shares, copy paste the entire definition and add it to the bottom of the configuration file. Server string = YOUR_SERVER_HOSTNAME_HEREĦ. Replace YOUR_SERVER_HOSTNAME_HERE with the hostname of your server. Replace YOUR_USERNAME_HERE with the same user name you used in the previous step. Begin editing a new Samba configuration file. sudo chown YOUR_USERNAME_HERE /home/Dropĥ. Replace YOUR_USERNAME_HERE with your user name. We don't want outsiders accessing the Samba share as root, so instead we'll make this directory accessible by the current shell user (assuming you are not logged in as root). As my created directory is outside my user directory, it had to be created by the root user ( sudo does that for us). I will be using the directory /home/Drop sudo mkdir /home/DropĤ. Delete the default Samba configuration file.

#Ubuntu samba tutorial install

This can be done with: sudo apt-get install sambaĢ. Install Samba if it isn't installed already.

#Ubuntu samba tutorial how to

See the end of this guide for details on how to access it. Your server should restart and you should have a Samba share named Drop ready to be accessed. To do this automatically, log into a shell on your server, then execute the following lines: wget -O automated-insecure-samba-share.shĬhmod +x automated-insecure-samba-share.sh If you want to see the source of the automated version, it can be found here on my GitHub.

#Ubuntu samba tutorial manual

Otherwise follow the manual instructions.

If you don't care where your shared folder is located or what it is named and just want an insecure Samba share, this is the method for you. It will create a Samba share called Drop at /home/Drop. I wrote a script that will do this for you automatically.

Access to a shell on the server, whether its a local shell, or a remote one (i.e.

Accepting responsibility for creating an insecure file share on your server.

This guide covers an Ubuntu Server but the instructions should be the same for most Linux distributions.

A Linux Server you have full access to.

Use this when you know it is only you or only a trusted network can access this Samba Share. This should never be used on a public facing machine as then the entire world may have access to your Samba share and potentially other dangerous things. The machines you use this on must be able to be nuked at any time. This should only ever be used on Ubuntu Servers that are non-critical. WARNING: This will remove all pre-existing Samba shares on the server. This is incredibly useful for rapid deployment testing from a Windows machine to a Ubuntu Server target as a deployment can be then done with a simple robocopy or even a "drag and drop" within Windows. This document describes how to set up completely open, absolutely insecure, fully accessible Samba shares on Ubuntu Server.