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Some distros do not have the facility that UBUNTU gives us to share folders using SAMBA, let's see how to create a basic setup where you don't need to enter a username / password and it works on any GNU / Linux distribution. |
You just have to install SAMBA from the official repositories with your preferred package manager:
We enter as root in a terminal:
su (root password)
Sabayon:
equal i samba
Arch:
pacman -S samba
Gentoo:
samba emerges
Then SAMBA needs to be added to the running services.
Always as root ...
Sabayon / Gentoo:
rc-update add samba default
Arch:
systemctl enable smbd.service
systemctl enable nmbd.service
Finally, you have to edit the configuration file /etc/samba/smb.cfg. Sometimes it is better to create a new one, so we can rename or delete the existing one.
mv /etc/samba/smb.cfg /etc/samba/smb.cfg.copy
nano /etc/samba/smb.cfg
[global] workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = SambaServer
server string = Linux
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
maxlogsize = 50
map to guest = bad user
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF = 8192 SO_SNDBUF = 8192
localmaster=no
dns-proxy=no
[Shared] path = / home / user / Shared
public = yes
only guest = yes
writable = yes
And that's it, when you restart you will be able to access your shared folder from any device on your network without a password or user. Obviously, it is not the most secure setting, but it is often the most appropriate.