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Creating a group file share with Samba
From the course: Learning CentOS Linux
Creating a group file share with Samba
- [Instructor] Individual file shares are pretty useful. But it's also nice to be able to provide a space where more than one user is able to work with files. That takes a little bit more set up. I'll open up the Samba configuration file at etc Samba smb dot com and I'll scroll down to the bottom of the file. I'll add some space here and start a new section with a pair of square brackets. We'll name the share engineering. And it'll be for people in our engineering group to share files. This name in the square brackets is what will show up when we connect to the server in order to use the share. I can add a comment to provide some detail about what the share is for. And then to set the path of the folder that I'm sharing I'll write path equals opt engineering. We'll create this path in just a moment. With a browseable equals yes declaration this share will show up when someone is browsing the server without specifically naming the share. If this were set to no, as it is up in the home…
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