How to setup Samba for File Sharing in Linux

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In this video, I go over how to setup samba for file sharing in Linux. This is a streamlined video that goes over the 2 easiest ways to accomplish this task.
Timestamps:
0:18 - Samba Share setup in Ubuntu GUI (nautilus)
2:25 - Terminal Setup - Smb.conf walkthrough
12:25 - Enabling SMB 1.0 in Windows
14:37 - Verifying Shares and Access
Below is my Samba Cheat-Sheet I created
Install Samba:
sudo apt install samba -y
Stop Samba Service:
sudo systemctl stop smbd
Create new directory to share:
mkdir linuxshare
Create New /etc/samba/smb.conf
In [global] tag add or change the folowing lines:
server role = standalone server
map to guest = bad user
usershare allow guests = yes
hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/16
hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0
Add new tag at the end:
[linuxsharename]
comment = Open Linux Share
path = /home/titus/linuxshare
read only = no
guest ok = yes
force create mode = 0755
force user = titus
force group = titus
TEST SETTINGS Type: testparm
Restart Samba Service
sudo systemctl enable smbd
sudo systemctl start smbd
OPTIONAL: Allow samba through firewall
RHEL/Centos/Fedora
sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=samba
Debian/Ubuntu/Mint
sudo ufw allow Samba
Now on any Windows Machines enable windows feature "SMB 1.0" .
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@ChrisTitusTech 5 лет назад

Timestamps: 0:18 - Samba Share setup in Ubuntu GUI (nautilus) 2:25 - Terminal Setup - Smb.conf walkthrough 12:25 - Enabling SMB 1.0 in Windows 14:37 - Verifying Shares and Access

@gumbystern 4 года назад

Did you end up doing the advanced samba sharing Chris, i can't find it

@charliebrownau 4 года назад

Gday Why in 2020 does linux still require people to drop to command line and type shit in FFS in 2020 Linux still cant match windows 98se for MS PAINT and MS file sharing ease of use

@Twich0713 4 года назад

Hello! I am looking for: how to add files in the media server. I already have the server running my TV and my other devices already detect it but all the folders in it are empty, and I already tried to add files to the folders I also try to add permission in yast and in the terminal but the only thing I get is to duplicate the folders but they are still empty. I would appreciate it very much if you made a video of how to do it, I"m new on linux PLEASE! I don't want to go back to windows

@alfabetony 3 года назад

@@charliebrownau you obviously do not know the purpose of foss and also you have not had enough time with LInux to appreciate its intricacies and ease of use. On windows you need to the same thing and eventually end up in a command line anyways but to each its own

@MarkMacRae 5 лет назад

Finally! A samba tutorial that works!! And I think you're the first to mention that option in Windows to enable samba shares. That old computer that's been uselessly running in my front closet for a year can finally be used as the file server it was meant to be. Thank you!

@prbrad514 4 года назад

Hey Chris just wanted to give a big THANK YOU. After watching this video I was able to set up my home network of 2 Linux computers and 2 Win 10 computers, I have been fighting this for days.

@Morphineck Год назад

Many, many, many thanks for this simple setup that works. As you said it is RIDICULOUS how much info is out there that just complicates things or includes super advanced setups that only very few people use. I can finally share my external drives over my home network with this setup. Seriously you are a life saver.

@Yasharvl 5 лет назад

Hi Chris, Thanks for the great video. As a reminder, I just wanted to add that we can't wait for the mentioned follow-up video on "Advanced Samba Sharing". ( I hope that I haven't missed it)

@dimindavis 9 дней назад

5 years later and still helpful. Thanks man!

@mcgiver2004 5 лет назад

Thank you for this video.. I was banging my head for days on this setup. :) The most useful part was enabling the windows 10 feature for smb1... alot of other guides did not show this step and made my setup to continue to fail... this helped me so much. Thanks again

@eduardorpg64 4 года назад

This helped me with an assignment! Turns out that my Windows Machine had the SMB 1.0 client disabled by default. I had to activate it, and it seems to be working (at least, for this example). Thanks!

@Audiman0aha Год назад

Doesn't work, windows computer wants credentials and after I enter them it tells me I don't have permission to use the network resource.

@JAnthony419 3 года назад

Watching it work and looking at what I wrote assisted me in seeing what I had done wrong. I'm grateful for your tips, and as you stated at the beginning these are for the new users. Well these also help with troubleshooting little errors.

@xnonsuchx 5 лет назад

I remember when it used to be easy the other way around to browse Windows file shares from Linux and then several years ago, the Linux distros decided that wasn't secure enough or something, so now, even though the file managers have an option to browse Windows networks, it just comes up blank or gives you an inaccessibility error w/ no help to the user on what to do to enable it. It kinda felt like they were just saying, "Hey! You're a Linux user. Figure it out!" ;-)

@sourabhsingh5678 4 месяца назад

I have tried a whole lot of things. This is the only one that worked. Thanks a lot for this and for a lot of your other work.

@originaldanman 3 года назад

Relatively new to Linux, running Kubuntu 20.04. I don't know why I didn't follow your instructions first, but after 14 hours I finally got it to work with your video. Thank you. However in all my previous blunders I found I had a problem with ssh and had to remove and reinstall which might have been part of my problem. So all's well, and it all works. Thanks again. Kubuntu 20.04

@computernerd5637 5 лет назад

Some folks may run into a connection problem, as I did. You may mention that the default firewall settings may stop Windows or Linux computers on the home network from communicating with the smbd service on the Linux box hosting the shared folder. It took me a few minutes to figure this out. I used Gufw to Allow incoming connections from the Home network through the Linux box firewall. Also, the Windows 10 I am using will not automatically discover the share (apparently a Windows 10 issue). I had to "Add a network location" via "This PC" in the File Explorer in order to get access to the shared folder. Thanks for your efforts, which made setting up a Samba share simpler.

@frankie2fingers271 10 месяцев назад

dude you literally saved my ass. I needed to enable the SMB settings on my windows box - that was my problem. Been looking and looking for days. Thanks a million.

@mrderby01 3 года назад

Chris, I relealize this video was created about 2yrs ago. However wanted to thank you for a very informative well explained process.

@skullcityvideo 4 года назад

Man! You saved my life. Thanks for the pro setup. Worked like charm!

@nathansaylor1239 5 лет назад

OMG! Dude, I've been doing all sorts of crazy stuff for weeks trying to find the magic combination to get this right. Found this video today and it just works! Had to undo some of the other stuff I had going on there, but so glad I found this. Thanks so much!

@SoulRollerFIN 4 года назад

Worked for me on Arch. FINALLY got samba to work. Great tutorial. Next step: being able to run games from the SMB folder on Windows 10 VM.

@ThatGuy89349 5 лет назад

Thanks you. I spent a couple of hours of trying to figure out how to get Mint 19 to connect to a shared printer on my Windows Machine before finding your video.

@lolz8930 5 лет назад

This tutorial worked perfectly for me! Learned some new stuff too. Excellent.

@rickbhattacharya2334 5 лет назад

Nice video sir i created a samba share almost 1 year ago for my anime 😂 , but i haven't added that ip protection thanks . And please make a advance version on it

@techtonicsystems 2 года назад

Fantastic! Many thanks for this excellent video, which has helped me solve a problem I've had for a while. Seems never trust the default smb.conf file. As a relatively new Linux user, I was avoiding editing the default file for fear of 'breaking' the system. Your approach worked perfectly!

@drrsc 5 лет назад

amazing. yet another video on how to share files/folders NOT between two actual machines, but using a host to virtual machine that already can share files/folders just by selecting an option from a drop down menu.

@_ianjms 4 года назад

I have been trying to setup samba to have shared folders between my Windows guest in KVM and my linux distro Manjaro. I actually had Virtualbox running already before but I switched to KVM because I wanted to even lower the overhead running a bunch of Windows programs that can't be run on wine. I only have my lower end laptop with me so gotta conserve every drop of performance hahaha. My college already started their semester, and they are teaching Visual Basic, so yeah I needed Visual Studio. (Kind of lame really, they could have gone for python if they worry about difficulty but nonetheless, I need to comply.) THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN SIR TITUS, YOU REALLY HELPED ME OUT!

@AgeOfNerds 5 лет назад

ty youtube for find you, damn it dude that is exactly what I was looking for. Big thanks from Brazil

@StenIsaksson 5 лет назад

Instead of changing stuff on every single Windows 10 PC, can't you just add "client min protocol = SMB2" and "client max protocol = SMB3" under [global]?

@ChrisTitusTech 5 лет назад

Thanks Sten, I'll have to try this out.

@GeoNeilUK 4 года назад

@@ChrisTitusTech I have to be honest, I have a Samba share running on my computer running MX Linux, and I've never had to add SMB1.0 CIFS features to get it to work. I've even managed to map my share to a drive letter in Windows 10.

@BreakingBuzz123 4 года назад

Where did the Nautilus file-sharing integration go???? I don't see it in Redhat 8

@fullscale4me 4 года назад

@@BreakingBuzz123 many file managers now require plugins for Samba, Dropbox and other filesharing options.

@GraphicsByStorm 2 года назад

9:01 the force create mode works, it just needs to be written as force create mode not mod.

@theodoros_1234 5 лет назад

Very useful and informative video, as always. This helped me. Thanks!

@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies 5 месяцев назад

As this video is old, I had some issues. I found that commenting out the "force user" and "force workgroup" lines were necessary, and it worked. I also had to configure my default firewall in linux mint, as was described in the description of this video.

@JangoDez 5 лет назад

Thank you so much! I was becomming crazyyyyyy with those shares!

@SchioAlves 4 года назад

Windows supports SMB by default, it only dropped support for 1.0/CIFS because it's crazy insecure. All it needs is add the "min protocol" parameter as SMB2 or SMB3 on smb.conf

@cameraman5764 5 лет назад

Thanks Chris this works great , before installed samba and enabled samba in win 10 it did not work it was giving me a permissions error , following your script now works fine

@NerfCat-zs2xe Год назад

great video, helped clear up stuff while troubleshooting my fileserver! definately saving for reference

@mrnobody1321 4 года назад

I've used this to send files from my Laptop (linux) to iOS. Nice and Smooth. Thanks man! I still can get rsync working properly though XD

@jaume748 Год назад

Thank you very much! You literally saved my day! I had done +2 hours trying to fix an issue and it was the SMB 1.0 feature that I didn't have enabled. Thanks!

@XxCrawdadCraigxX 3 года назад

Just informing me to enable SMB did the trick. Thank you so much!

@gregbenwell6173 4 года назад

I installed Samba on Ubuntu Bionic Bunny 18.04, and it installed correctly according to Ubuntu, but wouldn't show up on ANY Windows system in my network at all ANYWHERE in my home on the 6 other Windows computers I have running in my house!! TWO WEEKS I tried to troubleshoot the problem, two weeks everything I did failed, and I finally gave up, left it alone and was tempted to yank the install back off the Ubuntu machine I was running it on! THEN one morning I fired up my two work horse computers, my Ubuntu system and my Windows 7 machines, and half awake I sat here moving files between them like I normally do with a flash drive, until out of the blue I decided to open "network" in Windows Explorer, and there to my amazement was my Linux machine FINALLY showing up in the list....which when I clicked on it there in the "location folder" was my "Samba Drive" file folder I had set up as a test "place" on my network!! I don't know HOW it fixed itself, I don't know WHY it fixed itself, but for two weeks I couldn't get Samba to work or run or even show up on the network, and then one day it just started working two weeks later!! Now three more weeks have gone by and I still DO NOT UNDERSTAND what changed that Linux and Windows can now share files!! It is the weirdest "glitch" I have ever seen!!

@qball8up1968 2 года назад

Great job Chris! I'll have to check out the next installment.

@stanleyskarshaug6865 5 лет назад

Thank you! This was a fantastic guide!

@slappymcphee 5 лет назад

my recommendation would be to also show how to just plain force smbv2 and v3. even samba on kernel 3.10 uses samba 4.3.x which supports native smb v2

@stratchefjeff Год назад

Love your content. Re-film this one so you don't look like a psychopath.

@ahmedjoo1858 3 года назад

Thank you so much, it works as it should. for some reason using the build-in Ubuntu share for folders on an external USB drive was not accessible from windows. well, I can see the shared folder in windows explorer but can't open it, however, building the samba config file as you showed worked right away. I guess I need to check the differences between your .conf file and the original samba file.

@shanebagel 4 года назад

BEST TECH CHANNEL ON RU-vid

@TeamLinux01 5 лет назад

Have you though about using github for hosting any files, commands used for these videos? You could do what you are currently doing, but have a github link to config files and such, too. The repository could also contain a link to the video in its read me markdown file.

@ChrisTitusTech 5 лет назад

Yes! I have actually done this on a few videos that involved scripts. This is a fantastic idea though to do it for all the cheat sheets, as I love github and need to use it more. Here is my current Github: github.com/ChrisTitusTech

@Athul14311 5 лет назад

Hello sir, Love all your videos and this tutorial worked great. Thanks. But oncr i got samba working, the transfer speed was too low than using windows. ( 7 MB/sec) . Any tips on that?

@aaronryder4008 5 лет назад

setting up samba was killing me. it so fucking annoying I did everything like you did and even then it didnt work. Then I read your description and it said ufw then it hit me like a slap across my face that its the freaking firewall! Thank you man, great tutorial.

@TawandaKanengoni 4 года назад

Thank you for this tutorial it straight to the point and worked well. can you assist with one issue though how do i speed up my samba share its so so so SLOW

@AngryPacman111 10 месяцев назад

This is an old video but please don't enable SMB1.0, it's insecure, slow, obsolete and should not be used on newer OS. Add following line under [global] section in smb.conf instead: max protocol = SMB3. Or, if it doesn't work(for example, on Centos 6.x) try: max protocol = SMB2. If You have new enough(>= 4.2) Samba, do not add max protocol, it should work (and use SMB2 or SMB3) by default.

@ChrisTitusTech 10 месяцев назад

Forgot about this video, but you are correct. SMB1.0 should NEVER be used!

@enkiimuto1041 Год назад

This gotta be the best samba tutorial i've seen on youtube

@johnsmith7510 4 года назад

Very helpful and understandable! Thanks for sharing!

@alexandermironov8151 5 лет назад

Your video will help me to share family photos between 2 computers with 2 users each. Thanks.

@andrewsilvia5142 5 лет назад

Great video that's easy to follow. Just don't forget to add rules to your firewall to allow access to your files. XD

@yeems 4 года назад

for manjaro/arch users use the command sudo smbd service restart to restart it

@countMonteTristo 3 года назад

This is very helpful for me, thanks Chris

@ReinaldoTrindade 5 лет назад

Thanks a bunch! It's the only tut out here that here works. Can you make a video on diferent users and groups? Again, thanks a lot.

@vladekzbozinek 2 года назад

Great video. Thanx. However I did not find part 2 that you had talked about.

@hightechhighlander 8 месяцев назад

I have gone through the cut and paste tutorial from Ubuntu and I am being limited to 100GB in my share is there a setting in my .conf I can change to expand into the full near TB of storage I have available? It is nice to see someone take the time to explain the terminal based implementations rather than the standard RTFM.

@muhammadimranzahid5763 5 лет назад

Best video yet keep it up buddy and thanks a lot

@fredlit 4 года назад

You should always start by telling us what version of Linux you are using. Thank you.

@manishsharma-tw6hz 3 года назад

It worked perfectly. Thanks a lot

@giuseppeprovitina6545 4 года назад

doesn't work for me. If I try to open the shared folder from windows, it says that the user doesn't have the authorization (impossibile to find user name), and if I try to open in from ubuntu, it says "failed to mount windows share, invalid argument"

@adjusted-bunny 3 года назад

Why not starting from the default config file?

@megaxenu753 2 года назад

the files i create via the non-terminal method are discoverable on my windows machine but when they are created the are owned by "nobody". when i do the terminal method the file is not discoverable on the windows machine. bit confused really.

@johanisconstantin4701 4 года назад

everything worked well but my guest are allowed to do what they want on the server. how i change the guest to be able to create and view but NOT to delete?thanks

@zanebartlett4965 2 года назад

Not sure why, but this set up stopped working for me as of recently. I get this error "'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name "Everyone" to a SID. The network responded incorrectly.." when I attempt to reshare my file locally. My smb.conf file is set up exactly as it is here. When I remove this file and use the default one, I am able to set up the share. Then I just run into the issue of trying to configure it so that I get it as another user on another computer in the network

@palaniappanpraveen8527 4 года назад

thanks for the video for setup samba

@21stcenturyessentials11 3 года назад

I am facing a problem. I could share the files using samba share. But whenever i restart my pc the shared files disappear. I have to put the locations in the smb.conf fole again and restart smbd to get it working again. Please help me out

@suryaprassetyo3078 3 года назад

wow i try and it's work thanks this tutorial help me a lot !!

@pixelmartyr8532 5 лет назад

Kind of you Chris. Thank you for sharing

@adolfolopez126 Год назад

Yes finally got it working

@MegaZeeeh 10 месяцев назад

I keep getting the error "Unable to access location - failed to mount Windows share: Invalid argument", no matter what. My server is a headless raspberry pi and my client is a Fedora, I didn't see any instructions for Linux clients yet, is there any difference?

@cvsmith122 4 года назад

Did you ever create the "more advanced" setup ?

@cosmicfxx 4 года назад

Linux Ubuntu 20.04 can no longer detect my external SMB drive connected to my router, because I think it uses SMB 1.0 ... and apparently new Samba doesn’t use SMB 1.0 anymore ... any solution how to fix this? I’m sure many still want to be able to still use SMB 1.0. TIA

@jeevansapkota6647 4 года назад

Hey Chris I think I'm the only one her woth issue. I've tried exact same process you did but when I type IP in run (\\192.168.1.22 my linux IP) I get the computer is online but isn't communicating error. Plus it says that computer isnt responding to connections in port 445. Any solutions on this??

@stephanc7192 4 года назад

Dear Chris I enjoyed the video. Did you do the followup video on the samba? Kind regarda

@pankajjoshi8292 2 года назад

I have a ubuntu server 18.04 , file sharing is already enabled , but everyone can see others file kept in central server i want to make a centralised share folder where students can save their file in server with id password. Is this possible , pls suggest Thank you

@bernds1488 4 года назад

what phantastic distros are you all running if you can select sharing by right click? i run mint 19.2 with mate desktop and there is not such thing.

@WakeUpAmerican000s 4 года назад

I have a NAS on my DD-WRT router and while I can get to it from Dolphin File Manager, I can't "mount" it to a folder so I have a UNC file path for it. That's a whole different problem.

@Xeno_Bardock 5 лет назад

Can smb.conf be created and configured entirely using Smb4K GUI?

@ChrisTitusTech 5 лет назад

Great Question, I haven't used KDE that much and need to try this. I imagine that it would be pretty easy just like nautilus.

@Xeno_Bardock 5 лет назад

@@ChrisTitusTech I don't think you need KDE to use Smb4K. I have seen someone using Smb4K in Linux Mint Cinnamon 19 before.

@ChrisTitusTech 5 лет назад

I'll give it a whirl then.

@Xeno_Bardock 5 лет назад

@@ChrisTitusTech Found the video where i saw someone using Smb4K in LM 19 Cinnamon. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4s4kBGb-YSs.html

@Xeno_Bardock 5 лет назад

@@ChrisTitusTech Another Samba Gui is system-config-samba but its not updated since 2012 and may not work correctly.

@slowlymakingsmoke 4 года назад

Love it. Got this working on my Pop OS laptop to transfer tons of data from my Mac and PC. Thanks for making it so simple.

@Anonymoususer-um6yr 4 года назад

Thank you for the clear instructions but are my files safe ? Is there any encryption or firewall option?

@PERTIWI-rw9si 4 года назад

how to distinguish the password for each folder? if I have 5 sharing folders

@johnarnold893 9 месяцев назад

Fresh install of Linux Mint, installed Nautilus and there is NO option for local network share.

@ΘεοδωροςΖωης-β7σ 4 года назад

how i can delete files from other disks like hdd using Linux mint 19.3 distro ? i try delete some files and dont let me do it

@stoufa 3 года назад

What to do if I had another Ubuntu system instead of a Windows system?

@bergePanzer581 4 года назад

Hey Chris, what are the chances of taking another look at this in 2020? I think there's been some ah, 'changes', to the samba service works. Especially in Arch based distros...

@jangelelcangry 3 года назад

Samba transfer speeds with Lubuntu & Pop!_OS tops @ 50MBps instead of 100 with windows 10. Do I need to setup something else to speed up Linux Samba?

@shanebagel 4 года назад

WE LOVE YOU CHRIS

@e.l.6092 2 года назад

Does Samba support certificates rather than passwords?

@ezequielpartida5846 2 года назад

Hello Chris... Do you have a video on how to join Active Directory from linux and authenticate samba users? Les´s say I only want the domain\Managers_Group to be able to access my Samba Shares... Regards!!

@morfyys 2 года назад

Thank you very much, without enabling in windows Linux support, the windows not can access Linux shared folder.

@tezasrajguru5067 3 года назад

thanks its very helpful video

@proninety7587 3 года назад

I've shared some files but they don't show on my VLC player on the local network from another device, I suspect it has something to do with my ufw?

@proninety7587 3 года назад

nvm its "sudo ufw allow samba"

@martkt10 4 года назад

which version of ubuntu is this as i have tried various distrows with nautilus and non have had the share option

@Physics072 4 года назад

I have 400/100Mbit fiber at home and office. I have a NAS4Free box and a HyperV server at office. I set up a TurnKey VPM VM at office and works fine to connect. But... While I VPN copying files directly from the NAS smb 2.0 shares is only 2-4MB/sec (should be 10-12 range) copying same files off a windows share I get the full 11MB/sec. This takes a 10 HOUR VM backup from 10 hours to 50 hours (too slow) Why NAS4 free smb shares so much slower than windows shares over open VPN to home?

@rhob2422 5 лет назад

why dont I have local network share option at right click? Very basic step missing

@MrHRScrc 5 лет назад

Thanks again @Chris Titus Tech . I just wonder why i don't have that "folder sharing" option in the shell of my fedora gnome :(

@smakarl0 4 года назад

trying to share my 2nd drive or parts of it (data drive). The short share method functions on my main drive. I have not been able to make the 2nd shared. I have Samba and Webmin on Linux 18.04 64 bit. At this point I am just trying to share - the point of your video. please assist.