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Building a file server with Samba

Building a file server with Samba - Linux Tutorial

From the course: LPIC-2 Linux Engineer (202-450) Cert Prep

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Building a file server with Samba

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- Did you know you can use Linux as a file server on a Windows network? Stay tuned and we'll show you how to set up Samba. - [Announcer] You are watching IT Pro TV. (gentle music) (air whoosh) - Welcome back. I'm here with Don from more LPIC-2, and in this episode we're going to start our adventure into Samba. So can you give us kind of an overview of what we're going to start with today? - Sure. We'll, we'll kick things off, a little introduction to Samba for people who've never heard of it. Then we'll see how to get it installed and up on a system. And we'll look at a few little configuration items, things like letting it pass through a firewall, which are somewhat important. And by the end of the episode, we will have created a Samba server. - So you said you're going to give us an intro to Samba for people that have never heard of it. And that's me. So can you give us a little background on Samba? - All right. Samba has a bit of a storied history, right? So where this really all…

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