samba – mintCast https://mintcast.org The podcast by the Linux Mint community for all users of Linux Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:45:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://mintcast.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-small-logo-32x32.png samba – mintCast https://mintcast.org 32 32 164426984 471 – “Welcome To dockerCast” https://mintcast.org/471-welcome-to-dockercast/ Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:38:09 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7694 First up in the news: LMDE 7 “Gigi” released

Then in our Wanderings: Bill suffers an outage, Joe’s Jellyfin is “ok”, Majid is back to “full time”, and Jim has a lot of extensions

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

]]> First up in the news: LMDE 7 “Gigi” released

Then in our Wanderings: Bill suffers an outage, Joe’s Jellyfin is “ok”, Majid is back to “full time”, and Jim has a lot of extensions

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Link To Full Show Notes

The News:


LMDE 7 “Gigi” released


Amazon appears to be suppressing Fire TV 4K Select reviews and calling negative reviewers


NewPipe, alternate YouTube and PeerTube client for Android, turns 10

Check This Out:


Zen Browser

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 7694 370 – New Wanderers https://mintcast.org/370-new-wanderers/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 05:40:56 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5214 In security, no encrypted chats are safe
Then in our Wanderings, we hear from the old AND new crew
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30:19 Security Update
38:58 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
50:36 Announcements & Outro

First up in the news Linux Mint gets a new website, A new point release, Firefox snaps back, Gnome and Plasma get updates, and much more

In security, no encrypted chats are safe

Then in our Wanderings, we hear from the old AND new crew

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

The News

Security Update

Bi-Weekly Wanderings

Announcements

Wrap-up

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

  • Owen Peery for our audio production, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo, and Londoner for our time sync
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our backup Mumble room
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
]]> 5214 mintCast 312 – Remote File Mount https://mintcast.org/mintcast-312-remote-file-mount/ Wed, 03 Jul 2019 03:13:36 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=3658 Download
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Introduction: 

 

  • This is Leo and with me today is Joe, Tony Watts, and Moss, with Special Community Guest, Oliver Kelly.We’re recording on Sunday, June 30, 2019.
  • First up, in our Wanderings, I’ve been playing with Samba for the show, Tony Watts gets wired, Moss is distrohopping as work allows, and our guest Oliver has been blogging and reaching out to laptop vendors.
  • Then, in our news we talk new releases
  • In our Innards section, we talk Samba, NFS and Rclone
  • And finally we hit our listener feedback.

 

Bi-Weekly Wanderings: 

 

    • Leo
      • Learning more than I want to with Samba, but has been pretty easy overall through Nemo in Linux Mint Cinnamon.
      • Dove deep into Fedora 30 Server again this past week. Been meaning to get VM support on it and, at first glance, it looked extremely easy. Once I dug in, I realized there was a bit more to do than press the Install button. Also, adding a VM to a bridge wasn’t natively supported.

 

  • STILL NOT INSTALLED ARCH! Sadface 🙁

 

  • Moss
    • We got Episode 003 of Distrohoppers’ Digest out and into the wild, and we’re already getting good comments on all sides. We hope to be adding more chatter, as well as information on languages and accessibility, although we are a bit undereducated on the latter.  And, thanks to a rebroadcast via Hacker Public Radio, Episode 001 has reached more than 1,500 downloads! My comments on Solus OS from Episode 001 have been almost completely positive, for which I am grateful.
    • Install OpenMandriva Lx 4 – System locked up (oddly, except for my mouse pointer) just by trying to use my external monitor, before installation. I’m getting some really odd responses on the OM Forum on this.
    • I’ve updated my DistroBox™, the little box of color-coded jump drives to install YouPickIt™ Distro on other peoples’ machines. The current version is posted to our public Discord group.  Current residents include: OpenMandriva Lx 4; Fedora 30 Workstation; Gecko Linux 150.0 Static; MX 18 15Jan19; Linux Mint 19.1 MATE; Deepin 15.10; Ubuntu Budgie 19.04; Ubuntu MATE 18.04; Feren OS 2019; Bodhi 5.0.0; Sabayon 19.03 MATE; LMDE 3 “Cindy” Cinnamon 64-bit; and Slackware64 14.2 Live 1.2.0
    • Otherwise, work. Still full time, could switch to part time any week now. And, now, thanks to Joe, I’m now on the LinuxMint Slack conversation.
  • Joe
    • Mostly worked on headphones while on vacation.  Wanted a little break from computers.
    • Except I did fix my windows partition so that I could play the final DLC for Borderlands 2.  It is awesome.
    • Did not have the old problems where windows overwrites grub which was nice.  Just reinstalled and everything worked. Took forever to do all the updates and installs. 
    • Did not take long to get through all the new areas on the DLC but it was fun. 
    • Emailed Clem. He provided some information on the new mintBox and invited me to the slack channel for Linux Mint media

 

  • Tony W
    • Played with OBS
    • Internet upgrade
    • Wired internet to basement
      • Used netgear ex6300 wifi range extender as a network switch – replaced firmware with dd-wrt
    • Built a server
      • Used kubuntu
      • Plex media server primarily
    • Internet upgrade
      • Now getting 300+ Mbps 
      • Had a SD card just up and die on me
    • New car stereo.  Finally have bluetooth in the car.  No CD Player
    • Oneplus screen replacement debacle
      • Aftermarket screen does not play nice with Lineage
      • Had to go to Oxygen OS
  • Oliver – 0lzi
    • Blogging over at 0lzi.tk thats Olzi with an oh or zero. 
    • Reaching out to linux computer manufacturers to get review samples.
      • Juno computers
        • Blog post about this on the website.
      • And recently Starlabs have added me to list of media awaiting review laptops.
    • I got gifted RUST – 
      • Bit worried that I was going to go back to windows for the weekend to play it, as it has been broken and protondb since may.
      • after being broken on Linux for a while is now working, this is big news as this is a native and has easy-anti cheat. There is a bug currently that in certain textures it is like being in a disco ball.

 

The News:

 

 

Linux Innards:

 

SSHFS

SAMBA & NFS

 

  • Joe

 

    • Working with RCLONE 
      • A great tool for mounting cloud services as local drives
      • Rclone config
      • Rclone mount name: /location
      • Works well with onedrive and google and yandex
      • Does not work with Amazon cloud drive
        • Because Amazon changed their policies
      • Was not able to get sftp to work using RCLONE
        • Got an error
        • couldn’t connect ssh: ssh: must specify HostKeyCallback
      • Also was not able to get Dropbox working
        • Assume this is in regards to recent changes to policy
        • How to get around that.
      • Here are the listed services:
        •  1 / Amazon Drive
        •  2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
        •  3 / Backblaze B2
        •  4 / Dropbox
        •  5 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
        •  6 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
        •  7 / Google Drive
        •  8 / Hubic
        •  9 / Local Disk
        • 10 / Microsoft OneDrive
        • 11 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
        • 12 / SSH/SFTP Connection
        • 13 / Yandex Disk
  • Leo
    • Get Samba Rolling
      • At first glance, Samba sharing seems simple enough. And for the most part, that’s correct. However, even though Files (nemo) supports it natively, and even helps you set things up, it misses a step, but we’ll get to that at the end of my section.
      • Open Files (nemo). Head to your home folder and create a directory which we’ll use to share. Right click on the new directory. Click Sharing Options. If you haven’t done this before, you’ll see a message.
      • Samba needs to be installed, and your user account needs to join the ‘sambashare’ group. To the right of that message, there’s an Install button. Click it. Provide your password and hit Authenticate. It’ll ask you to confirm installing samba (click Install) and additional software (click Continue).
      • After everything is installed, the Folder Sharing window will ask you to reboot.
      • After reboot, Folder Sharing can be accessed the same as before, but you should now be able to turn on “Share this folder”. Click Create Share, and you’re done. Your user can now use this folder from other machines in the network. You’ll also see a new icon on top of the directory you shared.
      • From another Linux Mint machine I had on the network, I could open Files (nemo) and find the shared folder in the Network section. I double clicked on the hostname within, TESSA-ONE in my case, and the share was visible. However, I wasn’t able to log in with my username and password. This is because Samba shares use wholly separate user accounts and passwords than what are installed natively in Linux.
      • The step that’s missing for all this to come together is creation of a Samba user. You can name this account the same as your regular username to make things simple with `sudo smbpasswd -a leo`. The smbpasswd tool will immediately ask you to set a password. Do this, and if the password is different from your normal one, you’ll need to remember it when connecting to any shares on that machine.
      • If you have multiple samba shares, this whole process and upkeep can get really cumbersome.
      • If you ever need to change your Samba password, run the smbpasswd command again and supply your old and new passwords. Remember to use sudo if you’re creating new Samba users or configuring users other than yourself.
    • If you’re curious about the deeper workings of Samba, start with the Ubuntu Samba How-To on how to configure a Samba share manually. Samba is much more robust than what the how-to covers, but even still you’ll need to be comfortable editing permissions, umask and configuration files before you can really take this and run with it.
  • Tony – NFS
    • Why NFS?  Xbox One, Kodi, and all my other Linux machines
      • Kodi on Xbox One had built in support for NFS but not SMB (bizarre?)
    • I followed instructions at https://vitux.com/install-nfs-server-and-client-on-ubuntu/
      • Install NFS Kernel server
      • Create export directory (open up ownership)
      • Assign client access through export file
      • Export shared directory
      • Open firewall (if applicable)
      • Configure clients, mount NFS share on each client
    • Configuring Kodi with NFS share is a breeze

 

Vibrations from the Ether:

 

  • About splitting the show: For:Against ratio is 4:1. 
  • GOING LINUX 371 mentioned us
  • Bob Long
  • Levi Samuells on the MeWe Group

 

Check This Out!

 

 

Announcements: 

 

  • DistroTest.net appears to be improving their servers. More of the site is working, and there are clear signs of upgrades being done.

 

Wrap-Up:

 

 

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible … 

  • Josh for working on redesigning our website, setting up the YouTube and Twitch streams, and providing lots of technical help.
  • Bytemark hosting for providing the new hosting server for the website. (Which will roll out soon, we promise!)
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files.
  • The folks at Hacker Public Radio for the Mumble server we use to communicate
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about. [Thanks Clem!]
]]> 3705 mintCast 312 – Remote File Mount (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-312-remote-filemounts-mp3/ Wed, 03 Jul 2019 03:09:59 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=3653 Download
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Introduction: 

  • This is Leo and with me today is Joe, Tony Watts, and Moss, with Special Community Guest, Oliver Kelly.We’re recording on Sunday, June 30, 2019.
  • First up, in our Wanderings, I’ve been playing with Samba for the show, Tony Watts gets wired, Moss is distrohopping as work allows, and our guest Oliver has been blogging and reaching out to laptop vendors.
  • Then, in our news we talk new releases
  • In our Innards section, we talk Samba, NFS and Rclone
  • And finally we hit our listener feedback.

 

Bi-Weekly Wanderings: 

 

    • Leo
      • Learning more than I want to with Samba, but has been pretty easy overall through Nemo in Linux Mint Cinnamon.
      • Dove deep into Fedora 30 Server again this past week. Been meaning to get VM support on it and, at first glance, it looked extremely easy. Once I dug in, I realized there was a bit more to do than press the Install button. Also, adding a VM to a bridge wasn’t natively supported.

 

  • STILL NOT INSTALLED ARCH! Sadface 🙁

 

  • Moss
    • We got Episode 003 of Distrohoppers’ Digest out and into the wild, and we’re already getting good comments on all sides. We hope to be adding more chatter, as well as information on languages and accessibility, although we are a bit undereducated on the latter.  And, thanks to a rebroadcast via Hacker Public Radio, Episode 001 has reached more than 1,500 downloads! My comments on Solus OS from Episode 001 have been almost completely positive, for which I am grateful.
    • Install OpenMandriva Lx 4 – System locked up (oddly, except for my mouse pointer) just by trying to use my external monitor, before installation. I’m getting some really odd responses on the OM Forum on this.
    • I’ve updated my DistroBox™, the little box of color-coded jump drives to install YouPickIt™ Distro on other peoples’ machines. The current version is posted to our public Discord group.  Current residents include: OpenMandriva Lx 4; Fedora 30 Workstation; Gecko Linux 150.0 Static; MX 18 15Jan19; Linux Mint 19.1 MATE; Deepin 15.10; Ubuntu Budgie 19.04; Ubuntu MATE 18.04; Feren OS 2019; Bodhi 5.0.0; Sabayon 19.03 MATE; LMDE 3 “Cindy” Cinnamon 64-bit; and Slackware64 14.2 Live 1.2.0
    • Otherwise, work. Still full time, could switch to part time any week now. And, now, thanks to Joe, I’m now on the LinuxMint Slack conversation.
  • Joe
    • Mostly worked on headphones while on vacation.  Wanted a little break from computers.
    • Except I did fix my windows partition so that I could play the final DLC for Borderlands 2.  It is awesome.
    • Did not have the old problems where windows overwrites grub which was nice.  Just reinstalled and everything worked. Took forever to do all the updates and installs. 
    • Did not take long to get through all the new areas on the DLC but it was fun. 
    • Emailed Clem. He provided some information on the new mintBox and invited me to the slack channel for Linux Mint media

 

  • Tony W
    • Played with OBS
    • Internet upgrade
    • Wired internet to basement
      • Used netgear ex6300 wifi range extender as a network switch – replaced firmware with dd-wrt
    • Built a server
      • Used kubuntu
      • Plex media server primarily
    • Internet upgrade
      • Now getting 300+ Mbps 
      • Had a SD card just up and die on me
    • New car stereo.  Finally have bluetooth in the car.  No CD Player
    • Oneplus screen replacement debacle
      • Aftermarket screen does not play nice with Lineage
      • Had to go to Oxygen OS
  • Oliver – 0lzi
    • Blogging over at 0lzi.tk thats Olzi with an oh or zero. 
    • Reaching out to linux computer manufacturers to get review samples.
      • Juno computers
        • Blog post about this on the website.
      • And recently Starlabs have added me to list of media awaiting review laptops.
    • I got gifted RUST – 
      • Bit worried that I was going to go back to windows for the weekend to play it, as it has been broken and protondb since may.
      • after being broken on Linux for a while is now working, this is big news as this is a native and has easy-anti cheat. There is a bug currently that in certain textures it is like being in a disco ball.

 

The News:

 

 

Linux Innards:

 

SSHFS

SAMBA & NFS

 

  • Joe

 

    • Working with RCLONE 
      • A great tool for mounting cloud services as local drives
      • Rclone config
      • Rclone mount name: /location
      • Works well with onedrive and google and yandex
      • Does not work with Amazon cloud drive
        • Because Amazon changed their policies
      • Was not able to get sftp to work using RCLONE
        • Got an error
        • couldn’t connect ssh: ssh: must specify HostKeyCallback
      • Also was not able to get Dropbox working
        • Assume this is in regards to recent changes to policy
        • How to get around that.
      • Here are the listed services:
        •  1 / Amazon Drive
        •  2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
        •  3 / Backblaze B2
        •  4 / Dropbox
        •  5 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
        •  6 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
        •  7 / Google Drive
        •  8 / Hubic
        •  9 / Local Disk
        • 10 / Microsoft OneDrive
        • 11 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
        • 12 / SSH/SFTP Connection
        • 13 / Yandex Disk
  • Leo
    • Get Samba Rolling
      • At first glance, Samba sharing seems simple enough. And for the most part, that’s correct. However, even though Files (nemo) supports it natively, and even helps you set things up, it misses a step, but we’ll get to that at the end of my section.
      • Open Files (nemo). Head to your home folder and create a directory which we’ll use to share. Right click on the new directory. Click Sharing Options. If you haven’t done this before, you’ll see a message.
      • Samba needs to be installed, and your user account needs to join the ‘sambashare’ group. To the right of that message, there’s an Install button. Click it. Provide your password and hit Authenticate. It’ll ask you to confirm installing samba (click Install) and additional software (click Continue).
      • After everything is installed, the Folder Sharing window will ask you to reboot.
      • After reboot, Folder Sharing can be accessed the same as before, but you should now be able to turn on “Share this folder”. Click Create Share, and you’re done. Your user can now use this folder from other machines in the network. You’ll also see a new icon on top of the directory you shared.
      • From another Linux Mint machine I had on the network, I could open Files (nemo) and find the shared folder in the Network section. I double clicked on the hostname within, TESSA-ONE in my case, and the share was visible. However, I wasn’t able to log in with my username and password. This is because Samba shares use wholly separate user accounts and passwords than what are installed natively in Linux.
      • The step that’s missing for all this to come together is creation of a Samba user. You can name this account the same as your regular username to make things simple with `sudo smbpasswd -a leo`. The smbpasswd tool will immediately ask you to set a password. Do this, and if the password is different from your normal one, you’ll need to remember it when connecting to any shares on that machine.
      • If you have multiple samba shares, this whole process and upkeep can get really cumbersome.
      • If you ever need to change your Samba password, run the smbpasswd command again and supply your old and new passwords. Remember to use sudo if you’re creating new Samba users or configuring users other than yourself.
    • If you’re curious about the deeper workings of Samba, start with the Ubuntu Samba How-To on how to configure a Samba share manually. Samba is much more robust than what the how-to covers, but even still you’ll need to be comfortable editing permissions, umask and configuration files before you can really take this and run with it.
  • Tony – NFS
    • Why NFS?  Xbox One, Kodi, and all my other Linux machines
      • Kodi on Xbox One had built in support for NFS but not SMB (bizarre?)
    • I followed instructions at https://vitux.com/install-nfs-server-and-client-on-ubuntu/
      • Install NFS Kernel server
      • Create export directory (open up ownership)
      • Assign client access through export file
      • Export shared directory
      • Open firewall (if applicable)
      • Configure clients, mount NFS share on each client
    • Configuring Kodi with NFS share is a breeze

 

Vibrations from the Ether:

 

  • About splitting the show: For:Against ratio is 4:1. 
  • GOING LINUX 371 mentioned us
  • Bob Long
  • Levi Samuells on the MeWe Group

 

Check This Out!

 

 

Announcements: 

 

  • DistroTest.net appears to be improving their servers. More of the site is working, and there are clear signs of upgrades being done.

 

Wrap-Up:

 

 

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible … 

  • Josh for working on redesigning our website, setting up the YouTube and Twitch streams, and providing lots of technical help.
  • Bytemark hosting for providing the new hosting server for the website. (Which will roll out soon, we promise!)
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files.
  • The folks at Hacker Public Radio for the Mumble server we use to communicate
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about. [Thanks Clem!]
]]> 3704 Getting the most out of samba https://mintcast.org/getting-the-most-out-of-samba/ Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:45:50 +0000 http://www.mintcast.org/?p=25 So you should know how to set up samba if you listened to the first MintCast podcast. But what if you ran into problems? I know I sure did. Here are some of the problems I ran into and what I did to fix it…
If when you right clicked on a folder you did not have the “Sharing options” go over to the mintMenu and then click on “Package Manager”. Put in your password and search for “nautilus-share”. You should only have 1 result so just check the box next to it and mark it for installation. Then click apply and you should be good to go.
I already had that option so the first thing that happened to me was when I right clicked on “Sharing options” I got this error.
“‘net usershare’ returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error Permission denied. You do not have permission to create a usershare. Ask your administrator to grant you permissions to create a share.”
I won’t go into the details of why this happens but if you get this problem you will need to edit a configuration file. Don’t get scared this is going to be easy.
There are two ways you can do this without opening a terminal and if you feel more comfortable check out a little how to on setting that up here. Otherwise open a terminal and type “sudo gedit /etc/group”. This will probably ask you for your password and then open gedit with a bit of stuff already inside. Be careful when editing this file! This file is what tells Linux Mint who can use what. I don’t just mean documents either. This tells Linux Mint if you can use your CD drive, hard drive, etc.
All we are going to do is find the line that starts with “sambashare:”. It is probably near the bottom so scroll down and when you find that line you will want to add your user name after the last : on that line. For example I had to add rothgar so my line looks like this now “sambashare:x:112:rothgar”. Once you add that user save and close the file. Log out and then back in. Now you have permissions to create samba shares on your computer.
This was the only problem I ran into when creating a share. If you had any other problems go ahead and post a comment and we will see what we can do to find a solution.

So now that we are past the problems now, so how do you get the most out of samba? To make this easy I use a tool called gsambad. To use this fire up your package manager and search for gsambad and install it.
Here is what mine looked like when I first started it up.
gsambad_01
I know it is a lot of stuff and you don’t have to know what it all means. There are a few places you want to make sure you know what they mean though. First is the server host name. That is the name people can browse to your files assuming DNS works on your network (which it should). You can change your hostname there or under mintMenu -> control center -> network. Workgroup or domain should be whatever you workgroup is where you are using your computer. My workgroup at home is called shoppe and this can also be changed in control center. Allowed hosts and network is important because you will want to make sure the correct networks can browse to your files. My network at home is set up as 192.168.2.X so i had to add that to the list. My network at work is 10.10.133.X so I also had to add that too. Here is my configuration file after a few edits.
gsambad_02

Everything under the “Server settings for advanced administrators:” we can ignore for this tutorial.
Lets look at our users tab. This says what users are allowed on your samba shares. You probably have 3 users listed here by default, your user, smbguest, and root. I would recommend creating users through control center -> users and groups and not through gsambad if you want more people to have access to your samba shares. The smbguest account is for everyone that doesn’t have a local account on your computer.
gsambad_03
If you click on the shares tab you will see all the folders that are shared in your /etc/smb.conf file. A lot are there by default (home, printers, etc.) and these make getting the files you need easier.
gsambad_04

But what about folders you right clicked on and did sharing options for like before? Those files are actually stored in /var/lib/samba/usershares/ as configuration files. Here is a configuration file for one that I set up earlier that didn’t show up in gsambad.

path=/home/rothgar/Desktop/amarok
comment=
usershare_acl=S-1-1-0:R
guest_ok=n

Sure you could just add more files in that folder and that will add more samba shares. Or you can still right click on folders and add them the GUI way, but personally I like setting up all my shares in gsambad or in the /etc/smb.conf file so that I have everything in one place. To add a share click the new share button. Type in the name of what the share will be (anything without spaces or symbols is good) and type in the path to where the folder is that you want to share. I am going to share another folder on my desktop called Banshee. To allow someone to veiw these files you will have to click on “Add access permissions”
gsambad_05

Select where you want to get the user from and if you want to allow access or deny access and if you want to allow this user to write to the folder or not.
gsambad_06
Select what users you want to have permissions and click import users. You will get a couple pop ups (just click close to get back to the main window). Once you are back to the shares windows scroll down to set if you want your share to be read only, writable, etc.
If you set the share to public than you won’t have to put in a username or password to connect to the share. This isn’t good for your home directory. But if you want a public spot for anyone to drop files or get files from you you should make it public.
gsambad_07
As soon as everything looks good just click add at the top and your new share will automatically be written to the smb.conf file. If you ever need to edit the share you can just come back to this tab and change the settings you want changed then click apply at the top.
You probably won’t use any of the other tabs in gsambad except maybe the configuration tab. This tab just shows what the smb.conf file actually has in it. The other tabs can edit this file for you through the GUI but if you want to do it manually you can change that on the configuration tab.
I hope this helps you get on track with samba and how to configure it a little more. Let me know if you have any questions in the comments or send me a email.

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