Here’s my setup. I’ve got a large network that’s accessible by hordes of people. On this network I have an Ubuntu box acting as a file server. I want a limited number of folks to be able to put files on it, take files off of it and access it from a number of different operating systems (OSX, Windows and Linux). How to do that? Well, the unix folks can use ssh and scp to connect and move files around (as can the more advanced windows folks)but for graphical sharing or mapping a network drive via Windows, we need Samba to get involved.

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How to share a folder with Read/Write access using Samba on Linux

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