Setting up Simple Samba File Shares

Sometimes, you just want to share files with colleagues quickly without worrying about permissions. In this tutorial, I go over the process of creating shares for your home or small business network that are wide-open and writable for all. This isn't for sharing protected or confidential files, but will get you up and running with a shared folder or two that's accessible by all.

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[martingjsmith]

As a real Linux newbie, I learnt a lot from this video whilst experimenting with a Raspberry Pi and Ubuntu Server. Time to start watching the rest of your Linux videos in 2024. Thank you and a Happy New Year.

[dinnerandashow]

Wow ! Not just spitting out instructions but also a brief explanation of the instruction.
A foreign concept to most people that believe they are making tutorial videos.

[wellbi]

For those who struggle to see the Samba server in Windows. Windows doesn't support NetBIOS discovery anymore and Samba out-of-the-box relies on that. You have to install wsdd on the machine running Samba (For Debian-based distros "apt install wsdd"), after that, the files/folders set up in Samba will be discoverable by the Windows machine.

[celo]

I’ve been scouring YouTube for a video like this, I’ve watched countless videos only to find myself with errors or not working properly. FINALLY YOUR VIDEO SO DETAILED DOESNT SKIP A BEAT. Thank you 🙏

[michaelscofield]

I know this video is 2 years old but your videos just rock man. I followed your Arch install along some years ago and am not disappointed with this one either. Superb and concise.

[BrianThomas]

I've seen a few of these and this one ranks up there. Thanks for the help. I'd love to see a more advance video on Samba sharing if you have the time to put something together for us.

[rcobuop]

First time I got a samba server working reliably. Thanks Jay

For use in a demo for my master's degree on big data I'll use some Samba shares, and even I have used Samba before (and have the Carter, Ts & Eckstein "Using Samba" book), this was the fastest way to create public shares that I found that works. THANKS, MAN, THANKS

[The_Letter_E-tq]

Thanks man I can't tell you how much searching I did to get this to work before coming across your video, now it's working perfectly.

[metalxthrashingxmad]

Thank you for making this video. I'm a newer Linux user, and haven't been able to find a way to successfully make Samba function, until now!

[binarytrekker]

I followed this tutorial at least 10 times and every time I got access tonight or something different. I finally just used putty to SSH into the VM, and copied and paste everything from your tutorial and it worked

[jtreg]

this actually works. Not a given in YouTube. Clear and concise. Subscribed, thanks man.

[sherakhela]

Thanks Jay for this great tutorial. I set up my very first samba server today with your help. The mistake I made in typo, used shares instead of share in config file. It took me little time to figure it out. Now I can see content on my other device. Thanks a lot

[yiannisspanos]

Great video. Are you planning to make a video for "not so simple" file shares too?

[Agustin-xsug]

Worked as intended. I just turned a 2011 laptop into a home file server.

Absolute madman, thank you so much <3

[markh]

Gday Jay, your video has to one of the easiest ones to understand and follow with regards to Samba setups. It got me back up and running in no time. Also slowly going through your Linux tutorials, which has helped with mounting drives and understanding permissions. Cheers

[noweare]

samba is kind of complicated but you made it much easier to understand and implement, thanks.

[Lanzetsu]

This is one of the best videos about SAMBA I ever watched, thanks a lot!

[BinayakKundu]

Thanks Jay! Please make a video on samba sever with user name and password.

[zameerpashablr]

I have watched at least 20 times ...Love to learn from you. At last did experiment creating samba server.