Share folders via Samba without a password

By Yifan Peng | September 8, 2013


Switching from Windows to Linux, the first thing might be to share folders on Linux with Windows. That will enable transferring files easily. In Linux, such operation is not always trivial. On Ubuntu, We need to install the samba to share files/folders. Here are the instructions:

1. install the samba package:
   sudo apt-get install samba
   
2. edit the configure file /etc/samba/smb.conf.
   
3. change information: security = share.
   
4. add new section:
   

   [share] 
   comment = Ubuntu File Server Share 
   path = /srv/samba/share 
   browsable = yes 
   guest ok = yes 
   guest only = yes
   read only = no
   writable = True 
   create mask = 0755
   

5. create directory and change the permission:
   

   sudo mkdir -p /srv/samba/share 
   sudo chown nobody.nogroup /srv/samba/share/
   

6. restart the samba services to enable the new configuration:
   

   sudo restart smbd 
   sudo restart nmbd