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 ====== How to Install Samba Server ======
+. Samba is included in most Linux distributions. To install Samba on Ubuntu, simply run the following command in terminal
+<code>sudo apt install samba samba-common-bin</code>
+. To check your Samba version, run
+<code>smbd --version</code>
+. To check if Samba service is running, issue the following command
+<code>systemctl status smbd nmbd</code>
+. To start these two services, issue the following command
+<code>sudo systemctl start smbd nmbd</code>
+. If you have enabled the UFW firewall on Ubuntu, then you need to open the above ports in the firewall with the following command
+<code>sudo ufw allow samba</code>
+. Create a private Samba share, issue the following command
+<code>sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf</code>
+. scroll down to the bottom of the file. (In nano text editor, you can achieve that by pressing CTRL+W then CTRL+V. ) Add a new section like below
+<code>
+[Private]
+comment = needs username and password to access
+path = /srv/samba/private/
+browseable = yes
+guest ok = no
+writable = yes
+valid users = @samba
+</code>
+. Save and close the file
+. Now we need to create a Samba user
+<code>sudo adduser username</code>
+. Samba password for the new user
+<code>sudo smbpasswd -a username</code>
+. Create the samba group
+<code>sudo groupadd samba</code>
+. And add this user to the samba group
+<code>sudo gpasswd -a username samba</code>
+. Create the private share folder
+<code>sudo mkdir -p /srv/samba/private/</code>
+. If your system doesn’t have the setfacl command, you need to install the acl package with
+<code>sudo apt install acl</code>
+. The samba group needs to have read, write and execute permission on the shared folder
+<code>sudo setfacl -R -m "g:samba:rwx" /srv/samba/private/</code>
+. Run the following command to check if there’s syntactic errors
+<code>testparm</code>
+. Now all left to do is to restart smbd and nmbd daemon
+<code>sudo systemctl restart smbd nmbd</code>
+[[ubuntu-main-page|Ubuntu Main Page]]
 [[https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/install-samba-server-file-share|How to Install Samba Server Reference]]