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Ubuntu 11.04 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam BackendThis tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 11.04 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you! 1 Preliminary NoteI’m using an Ubuntu 11.04 system here with the hostname server1.example

Ubuntu 11.10 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam BackendThis tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 11.10 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you! 1 Preliminary NoteI’m using an Ubuntu 11.10 system here with the hostname server1.example

Setting Up A Linux File Server Using SambaA quick Google will show many ways to to setup a Linux file server running Samba, most of them however don’t work! Some leave out important bits leaving you stuck and some will only work with one version of a specific Distro (but of course don’t mention this). I struggled for ages getting Samba to work reliably and made quite a few wrong turns on the way. I was just trying to set up a simple Linux file server to store music, photos etc. but eventually found a foolproof (probably) way to do it. The following works and has been tested several times on fr

Creating A Home Media & File Server With UbuntuFor the past two years, I have used FreeNAS 7.x as a file-server. After the development was bought-out, the home-designed service fell by the wayside. The unfortunate consequence is that all of my data was stored on UFS GPT partitions which is does not have native support by either Windows or Linux kernels. The solution I decided upon was to purchase another 2TB hard-drive to use as a storage buffer to copy UFS data and repartition into EXT4 using Ubuntu 11.10’s terminal with a mount command.After that hiccup, I set out to setup the best server op