Configuring Samba users and shares on Linux

A quick guide to setting up Samba users and shares. The instructions below were developed on a Mandrake system and may be slightly different for other distributions.

• Download and install the samba server
• Add your shares in /etc/samba/smb.conf. This file usually has examples embedded as comments
• Add users in /etc/samba/smbusers. Format is
  add <unix_username> = <smb_username1> <smb_username2> ...
• Specify the password for the new user in /etc/samba/smbpasswd. You can do this as follows:
  smbpasswd -a <unix_username>
• Restart samba
  /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart