Samba Server help
 

Hello. I've set up a Samba server today and created a share, I can access the share from my Windows system, edit and add folders and text files etc. What I would like to do is set the share in a way that only certain people can access it, I can do it in a way that in affects users on my Ubuntu PC but I want to add access for my Windows user as well, how can I do this?

Hi,

You have to look at configuring your Samba with a kind of integration with Windows Active Directory domains.
Just google for it, there should be a lot of related tutorials and linked to your distribution.

This should help.

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Set...ain_Controller

depending on how complicated your set up is, you could possible get away with just defining users in your share definition.

valid users = user1 user2 user3

this also works in reverse

invalid users = user1 user2 user3


there the user1 user2 user3 are individual samba account users.

more info here:

https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/ch09.html