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  • Very Simple Samba Disk Sharing

Since there's a million different pages covering Samba, I'll just make some short notes what I had to change in the default config to have machine keep a network disk sharable to allow my other computer mount it as a network disk using Windows 98, without specifying a password.

Change the line in /etc/smb.conf that says security = user to instead become security = share.

Add a section in the 'Share Definitions' that looks something like:

[data]

  • comment = General Data Disk path = /data read only = No guest ok = Yes

Make samba reload the config file and fly...

Advice: to share a FAT-parition with samba. You want to read my non-root-write-DOS edit to allow non-root users to write to it, as unless you wanna run samba as root you won't be able to write to that shared disk otherwise!