linux samba服务

If you want to share files between your Ubuntu and Windows computers, your best option is to use Samba file sharing.

 

To install, first open a terminal window and enter the following command:

sudo apt-get install samba smbfs

We’ve got samba installed, but now we’ll need to configure it to make it accessible. Run the following command to open the configuration file, substituting your editor of choice:

sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

Find this section in the file:

####### Authentication #######

# “security = user” is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
# in this server for every user accessing the server. See
# /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ServerType.html
# in the samba-doc package for details.
;  security = user

Uncomment the security line, and add another line to make it look like this:

security = user
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers

This will set Samba to use the smbusers file for looking up the user list.

Create a Samba User

There are two steps to creating a user. First we’ll run the smbpasswd utility to create a samba password for the user.

sudo smbpasswd -a <username>

Next, we’ll add that username to the smbusers file.

sudo gedit /etc/samba/smbusers

Add in the following line, substituting the username with the one you want to give access to. The format is <ubuntuusername> = “<samba username>”.  You can use a different samba user name to map to an ubuntu account, but that’s not really necessary right now.

<username> = “<username>”

Now you can create samba shares and give access to the users that you listed here.

Samba Server allows you to share the home directories of users automatically. This can be useful so that you don’t have to manually create every share for every user.

First, make sure that you’ve installed Samba server.

To share the home directories, open up smb.conf with the following command:

sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

Find this section of the file, and make it match the following:

#======================= Share Definitions =======================

# Un-comment the following (and tweak the other settings below to suit)
# to enable the default home directory shares. This will share each
# user’s home directory as //server/username
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = yes

# By default, //server/username shares can be connected to by anyone
# with access to the samba server. Un-comment the following parameter
# to make sure that only “username” can connect to //server/username
valid users = %S

# By default, the home directories are exported read-only. Change next
# parameter to ‘yes’ if you want to be able to write to them.
writable = yes

Now you should be able to map a drive on windows using the following share format:

//ubuntumachine/username

For example, if the Ubuntu machine is named ubuntuserv, and the username is geek, your share path would be //ubuntuserv/geek

上面的话在windows上已经将samba服务启动起来了，那么如何在windows上访问这个samba服务呢？起始很简单直接在”运行“下输入//ip_address就可以了。