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How to configure Samba Server share on Ubuntu

22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Linux
8 March 2022 by Korbin Brown

File servers often need to accommodate a variety of different client systems. Running Samba on
Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish allows Windows systems to connect and access files, as well as
other Linux systems and MacOS. An alternative solution would be to run an FTP/SFTP server on
Ubuntu 22.04, which can also support the connections from many systems.

The objective of this tutorial is to configure a basic Samba server on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy
Jellyfish to share user home directories as well as provide read-write anonymous access to
selected directory.

There are myriads of possible other Samba configurations, however the aim of this guide is to
get you started with some basics which can be later expanded to implement more features to
suit your needs. You will also learn how to access the Ubuntu 22.04 Samba server from a
Windows system.

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How to configure Samba Server share on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Linux

Software Requirements and Linux Command Line Conventions

Category Requirements, Conventions or Software Version Used

System Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish

Software Samba

Other Privileged access to your Linux system as root or via the sudo command.

# – requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either

directly as a root user or by use of sudo command
Conventions
$ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged
user

How to configure Samba Server share on Ubuntu 22.04 step by step

instructions

Step 1 Let’s begin by installation of the Samba server. This is a rather trivial task. First, open a
command line terminal and install the tasksel command if it is not available yet on your
Ubuntu 22.04 system. Once ready, use tasksel to install the Samba server.

$ sudo apt update

$ sudo apt install tasksel
$ sudo tasksel install samba-server

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Step 2 We will be starting with a fresh clean configuration file, while we also keep the default
config file as a backup for reference purposes. Execute the following Linux commands to make
a copy of the existing configuration file and create a new /etc/samba/smb.conf configuration
file:

$ sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf_backup

$ sudo bash -c 'grep -v -E "^#|^;" /etc/samba/smb.conf_backup | grep . > /etc/samba

Step 3 Samba has its own user management system. However, any user existing on the samba
user list must also exist within the /etc/passwd file. If your system user does not exist yet,
hence cannot be located within /etc/passwd file, first create a new user using the useradd
command before creating any new Samba user. Once your new system user eg. linuxconfig
exits, use the smbpasswd command to create a new Samba user:

$ sudo smbpasswd -a linuxconfig

New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Added user linuxconfig.

Step 4 Next step is to add the home directory share. Use your favourite text editor, ex. atom,
sublime, to edit our new /etc/samba/smb.conf Aamba configuration file and add the following
lines to the end of the file:

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = yes
read only = no
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700
valid users = %S

Step 5 Optionally, add a new publicly available read-write Samba share accessible by
anonymous/guest users. First, create a directory you wish to share and change its access
permission:

$ sudo mkdir /var/samba

$ sudo chmod 777 /var/samba/

Step 6 Once ready, once again open the /etc/samba/smb.conf samba configuration file and
add the following lines to the end of the file:

[public]
comment = public anonymous access
path = /var/samba/
browsable =yes
create mask = 0660
directory mask = 0771
writable = yes
guest ok = yes

Step 7 Check your current configuration. Your /etc/samba/smb.conf samba configuration file
should at this stage look similar to the one below:

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1 [global]
2 workgroup = WORKGROUP
3 server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
4 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
5 max log size = 1000
6 logging = file
7 panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
8 server role = standalone server
9 obey pam restrictions = yes
10 unix password sync = yes
11 passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
12 passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:*
13 pam password change = yes
14 map to guest = bad user
15 usershare allow guests = yes
16 [printers]
17 comment = All Printers
18 browseable = no
19 path = /var/spool/samba
20 printable = yes
21 guest ok = no
22 read only = yes
23 create mask = 0700
24 [print$]
25 comment = Printer Drivers
26 path = /var/lib/samba/printers
27 browseable = yes
28 read only = yes
29 guest ok = no
30 [homes]
31 comment = Home Directories
32 browseable = yes
33 read only = no
34 create mask = 0700
35 directory mask = 0700
36 valid users = %S
37 [public]
38 comment = public anonymous access
39 path = /var/samba/
40 browsable =yes
41 create mask = 0660
42 directory mask = 0771
43 writable = yes
44 guest ok = yes

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Step 8 Our basic Samba server configuration is done. Remember to always restart your samba
server, after any change has been done to /etc/samba/smb.conf configuration file:

$ sudo systemctl restart smbd

Step 9 (optional) Let’s create some test files. Once we successfully mount our Samba shares,
the below files should be available to our disposal:

$ touch /var/samba/public-share
$ touch /home/linuxconfig/home-share

Access Ubuntu 22.04 Samba share from MS Windows

Step 1 At this stage we are ready to turn our attention to MS Windows. Mounting network
drive directories might be slightly different for each MS Windows version. This guide uses MS
Windows 10 in a role of a Samba client. To start, open up your Windows Explorer then right
click on Network and click on Map network drive... tab.

Map network drive option on MS Windows

Step 2 Next, select the drive letter and type Samba share location which is your Samba server
IP address or hostname followed by the name of the user’s home directory. Make sure you tick
Connect using different credentials if your username and password is different from
Samba one created with the smbpasswd command on Ubuntu 22.04.

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Select network folder configuration options and click Next

Step 3 Enter Samba user’s password as created earlier on Ubuntu 22.04.

Enter Samba password

Step 4 Browse user’s home directory. You should be able to see the previously created test file.
As well as you should be able to create new directories and files.
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The home directory is browsable, with read and write permissions

Step 5 Repeat the mounting steps also for the publicly anonymous samba directory share.

Mount the public Samba directory to a different drive letter in Windows

Step 6 Confirm that you can access the Public samba share directory.

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Connected to the public Samba share and the test file is viewable

All done. Now feel free to add more features to your Samba share server configuration.

Closing Thoughts

In this tutorial, we learned how to install Samba on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Linux. We also
saw how to create a Samba share, a Samba user, and configure read and write access. Then, we
went over the steps to connect to our Samba server from a client machine running MS Windows.
Using this guide should allow you to create a file server that can host connections from various
operating systems.

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