[ Thanks to Linux User &
Developer magazine for this link. ]
“Samba is a Linux/UNIX software package that allows you
to share files and directories with computers running other
operating systems over the network. It also allows your Linux
desktop or laptop to sign into a Windows network and be able to
share files inside a workgroup. There are several advanced features
that Samba comes with, such as domain controller. We will look at
how to convert your Ubuntu box into a Samba file server and
configure it to share directories with different combinations of
permissions.“01 Prerequisites
“When setting up a Linux file server, there are certain things
that you will to have set up on your server before you start
working on the Samba bit. The first thing you want to do is to set
up the server with a static IP address, as opposed to one assigned
dynamically by a DHCP server. Edit the file
‘/etc/network/interfaces’ with root user privileges and set the IP
address manually. An example of the settings would be using
something like the following:”