

If you want to set a password for a shared folder, you shout set a user for Samba file server with “ sudo smbpasswd -a Shais” command then type the password twice. Click Add the Permissions automatically to apply the permission to the shared folder.

Also, select Guest access (for people without a user account) to access files from Windows without requiring user and password.Ģ. To allow modification to files and folder for users, select Allow others to create and delete files in this folder. Right-click the Netdata folder and click Local Network Share.I have created Netdata folder and required to share it. Let’s do how to share a file in Ubuntu through file explorer? Open the File and create a folder in the Home directory. Because this apt-get install command will install software from Ubuntu online software repository. Remember your Ubuntu machine must be connected to the internet. Type the password to start the installation. Now type the “ sudo apt-get install Samba” to install Samba file server.To install Samba file server in Ubuntu Linux, run the terminal by pressing Ctrl+ Alt+ T keys to open Linux terminal command-line interface.If you don’t like reading then watch the video tutorials at the end of this post. So in this article, we are using in Per-to-Per network between Windows clients and Linux Ubuntu clients. Samba provides file and print services for various Windows clients and can integrate with a Windows Server domain, either as a Domain Controller (DC) or as a domain member. Sambais a free software re-implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol. The Samba server will simply let you share files with Windows and Linux Ubuntu. The best way to share file between Ubuntu and Windows, you need to install and configure Samba as a file server in Ubuntu Linux. In a network where you have Windows and Linux Ubuntu operating system, it is a bit difficult to share file between Ubuntu and Windows.
