Samba File Sharing Made Easy: Step-by

I wanted to share my home directory. I changed [homes] with some options to be accessible and I use smbpasswd to create a user and password.

If you want to share a file or folder within you home folder you probably need to chmod the folder to include the execute bit on the folder permissions.

Is there a way to only see my shared folder when i sign-in to samba as my main user account? Or do i have to create another user and add him to a group that ...

The [homes] share allows clients to access their home directories set up on the Samba server by creating a share on the fly at the moment the client asks for ...

Simply remove the [homes] share from the smb.conf file completely, or if you think you may want it in the future comment it out, and restart the samba service.

Home folders contain files of an individual account. Using Samba, you can share the directories to enable network users to store own files on their home folder ... Assigning a Home Folder to a... · In an Active Directory · In an NT4 Domain

Samba Server allows you to share the home directories of users automatically. This can be useful so that you don't have to manually create every share for ...

Basically samba will automatically create home shares on the fly using a users home directory i.e. /home/username. Your /home is still on the / ...

Use the built-in bools to allow samba to access your existing home directories, rather than changing the context of your files.

It's a 2 step process that involves turning off the user home service, which hides the home folder but also disables ssh keys, but we then relink the home ...