How to install Samba on Arch Linux 2017

Arch Linux Tutorial – Hello everyone, today we will show you how to install Samba on Arch Linux 2017. As you know, Samba is a special software that communicate between Linux and Windows workstation where lets us to share files and folders between Linux and Windows OS. With Samba, we can turn Arch Linux into a powerful File Server for our network. I am currently testing my Arch Linux for several purposes such as:

• Arch Linux as a multimedia streaming server with Emby Server
• Arch Linux as File Server using Samba

What you need ?

On this tutorial, you will need a working Arch Linux with internet connection. Most steps shown here were done via Terminal, so lets get our hands dirty. You may interested on the following articles to get started:

• Install Arch Linux 2017 Tutorial
• Configure SSH access for root user on Arch Linux

Steps to install Samba On Arch Linux 2017

Install Samba and required packages

sudo pacman -S samba smbclient

Create new smb.conf

cd /etc/samba
sudo cp smb.conf.default smb.conf

Add new Shares

The default configuration found in smb.conf should works for most cases. Now we need to add a new share.

sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

Now add the following lines to the bottom of the smb.conf. Please change it with your own.

[Share01]
path = /shares/share01
writable = yes
browseable = yes
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700
read only = no
guest ok = no

Create new samba group and samba user

#Create a new group called sambausers
sudo groupadd -r sambausers

#Add fitri to the sambausers group
sudo passwd sambausers -a fitri

#create new password for user fitri
sudo smbpasswd -a fitri

The command will add user fitri to access the Samba shares

Create the Directory

As you see on my Share01 above, the path is /shares/share01. But, the actual directory does not exist yet. We can create it now

#Create the directory
sudo mkdir -p /shares/share01

#change the owner to sambausers
sudo chown -R root:sambausers /shares/share01

#Give permission of the share
sudo chmod 1770 /shares/share01

Now we can restart Samba

sudo systemctl restart smb

At this point, our Samba server is ready and we can access it from other computer.

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