Use Samba to share files in Linux and Windows

1、Introduction

Samba is a free software for linking the UNIX series of operating systems with the Microsoft Windows operating system's SMB / CIFS (Server Message Block / Common Internet File System) network protocol. The third edition not only visits and shares SMB folders and printers, which can also be integrated into Windows Server domains, playing a domain control station (Domain Controller) and joining Active Directory members. In short, this software is a bridge between Windows and UNIX series operating systems, so that the resources are interoperable.

2、Install Samba Server on Linux（Ubuntu）

sudo apt -y update
sudo apt -y install samba

3、 Configure Samba server Share on Ubuntu

sudo mkdir -p /home/share
# Access to All without Authentication
sudo chmod 777 /home/share

Samba uses configuration file in /etc/samba/smb.conf. If you change this configuration file, the changes do not take effect until you restart the Samba daemon

sudo vim /etc/samba/smb.conf

[global]

# Configure correct UTP
  unix charset = UTF-8
# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will be part of
   workgroup = WORKGROUP
   bind interfaces only = yes

# Set share configuration at the end
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   path = /home/share
   writable = yes
   guest ok = yes
   guest only = yes
   create mode = 0777
   directory mode = 0777

4、Test and Config Samba Clinet

To access a Samba share on the Linux system ,you need to install and configure Samba client .

sudo apt -y install smbclient cifs-utils
# test 
smbclient //sambaserver/share -U sambausername

5、 Use Windows link Samba shared folders

Open up File Explorer and then right-click on This PC (in the left pane). From the resulting context menu, select Add a network location (Figure A)

Refer to

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