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Samba Server Installation On Debian 8

This document provides instructions for installing and configuring Samba on Debian 8 to share files over SMB. It describes adding Samba packages, editing the smb.conf file to define shares for all users, home directories and an anonymous share. It also covers adding and managing users, and accessing the Samba shares from Windows.

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Samba Server Installation On Debian 8

This document provides instructions for installing and configuring Samba on Debian 8 to share files over SMB. It describes adding Samba packages, editing the smb.conf file to define shares for all users, home directories and an anonymous share. It also covers adding and managing users, and accessing the Samba shares from Windows.

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Samba Server Installation on Debian 8

(Jessie)
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This tutorial exists for these OS versions

Debian 8 (Jessie)
Debian 7 (Wheezy)
Debian 6 (Squeeze)
Debian 5 (Lenny)
Debian 4

On this page

1. 1 Preliminary Note
2. 2 Installing Samba
3. 3 Adding Samba Shares
1. 3.1 Group share
2. 3.2 Home directories
3. 3.3 Anonymous share
4. 4 Adding and Managing Users
5. 5 Accessing Samba from Windows
6. 6 Links

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Debian 8 (Jessie) and how to
configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is
configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every
user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared
directory with read-/write access.

1 Preliminary Note
I'm using a Debian 8 system here with the hostname debian.example.com and the IP address
192.168.1.100.

I will use the nano editor in this tutorial to edit config files on the shell. Nano can be installed
with the command:

apt-get install nano

If you have a different favorite shell editor like joe or vi, then use that instead.

To make the Linux server accessible by name from my Windows workstation, I will add a
line to the hosts file on Windows. Run this command as Administrator user on Windows:
notepad C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

and add a line like this:

192.168.1.100 debian.example.com debian

at the end of the file. Replace the IP address with the server IP and the hostname with the
hostname that you have chosen for your server.

2 Installing Samba
Connect to your server on the shell as root user and install the Samba packages:

apt-get install libcups2 samba samba-common cups

Move the current smb.conf file to smb.conf.bak:

mv /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.bak

And then create a new file smb.conf file:

nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

With the following content:

[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = Samba Server %v
netbios name = debian
security = user
map to guest = bad user
dns proxy = no

Replace WORKGROUP with the workgroup name that is used on your Windows clients. If
you don't know the name of the workgroup, run this command on the Windows client to get
the workgroup name:

net config workstation

Then close the Samba configuration file on the server and restart Samba:

systemctl restart smbd.service

3 Adding Samba Shares


Now I will add a share that is accessible by all users.

Create the directory for sharing the files and change the group to the users group:
mkdir -p /home/shares/allusers
chown -R root:users /home/shares/allusers/
chmod -R ug+rwx,o+rx-w /home/shares/allusers/

mkdir -p /home/shares/anonymous
chown -R root:users /home/shares/anonymous/
chmod -R ug+rwx,o+rx-w /home/shares/anonymous/

At the end of the file /etc/samba/smb.conf add the following lines:

nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

3.1 Group share

This is a share that is accessible and writable for all members of our "users" group. Add the
following config at the end of the smb.conf file.

[allusers]
comment = All Users
path = /home/shares/allusers
valid users = @users
force group = users
create mask = 0660
directory mask = 0771
writable = yes

3.2 Home directories

If you want all users to be able to read and write to their home directories via Samba, add the
following lines to /etc/samba/smb.conf (make sure you comment out or remove the existing
[homes] section):

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

3.3 Anonymous share

You like to have a share were all users in your network can write to? Be careful, this share is
open to anyone in the network, so use this only in local networks. Add an anonymous share
like this:

[anonymous]
path = /home/shares/anonymous
force group = users
create mask = 0660
directory mask = 0771
browsable =yes
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
Now we restart Samba:

systemctl restart smbd.service

4 Adding and Managing Users


In this example, I will add a user named tom. You can add as many users as you need, in the
same way, just replace the username tom with the desired username in the commands.

useradd tom -m -G users

Set a password for tom in the Linux system user database. If the user tom should not be able
to log into the Linux system, skip this step.

passwd tom

-> Enter the password for the new user.

Now add the user to the Samba user database:

smbpasswd -a tom

-> Enter the password for the new user.

Now you should be able to log in from your Windows workstation with the file explorer
(address is \\192.168.1.100 or \\192.168.1.100\tom for tom's home directory) using the
username tom and the chosen password and store files on the Linux server either in tom's
home directory or in the public shared directory.

5 Accessing Samba from Windows


Now you can access the samba shares from your Windows Desktop. Open the command
prompt and enter "//debian" to open a file explorer:
That shows the shares of our samba server.

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