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Sep

How to Properly Setup Samba, Create Public Shares and Anonymously Browse Windows Shares on GNU/Linux

Posted by suvi under Samba, Server

Sometimes sharing files and folder between Windows and GNU/Linux can be annoying and problematic especially for beginners.

In this article we’re going to see how to setup Samba and how to get both Windows and GNU/Linux sharing and browsing public share the right way.

We have two scenarios :
1. GNU/Linux browsing Windows shares.
2. Windows browsing Samba shares.

Let’s start with first one.

1. GNU/Linux browsing Windows shares.
First of all, we need to do some tweaking on Windows to allow easy browsing.