Comments on: How to Install Samba on Ubuntu for File Sharing on Windows

By: Lewis Balentine

Lewis Balentine — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:00:37 +0000

Well, that did not work: Anonymous shares, delete folder failed, permission denied.

Need to add: create mask = 0775, directory mask = 0775

[Anonymous]
	comment = Anonymous File Server Share
	path = /srv/samba/anonymous_shares
	browsable =yes
	writable = yes
	guest ok = yes
	read only = no
	force user = nobody
        create mask = 0775
       directory mask = 0775

Samba is the DEFAULT file-sharing protocol on Linux. Why does it have to be so damned hard to get it to work? It should work “out of the box” as it does on windows. That is the principle reason Linux lags so far behind Windows in market share.

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:12:40 +0000

In reply to Ganesh.

@Ganesh

Thanks for the useful feedback. Remember to share it!

By: Ganesh

Ganesh — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 02:09:49 +0000

Very grateful tutorial.

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:28:08 +0000

In reply to Bhlowe.

@Bhlowe

True, thanks for sharing this.

By: Bhlowe

Bhlowe — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 20:52:28 +0000

You can also do:

# ufw allow samba