How to Configure SAMBA on a Linux Server
Step By step guide to configuring SAMBA on a LINUX server. This is for network administrators with experience configuring and administrating LINUX servers that want to know how to configure a SAMBA file server the right way step by step. In this step by step tutorial I am going to show you how to make a shared folder on a linux server and share it so users on Microsoft windows workstations can access it on a local – internal network. In this tutorial I am going to make the folder called “shared folder” and allow everybody access to the folder and printer networked to the Linux server. This is a basic how to guide for configuring a samba workgroup file server. I will cover how to build and configure a samba PDC – Primary domain controller in another tutorial for more experienced network administrators. STEP 1 Open the samba configuration file using a unix text editor. I like NANO since it is very easy to use. Below are the commands I used to perform this task. [ro...