

) to bring up the user-selector pop-up and select a user you wish to grant Samba access to.

Perform the following steps to create a shared network folder: The next step is creating the actually shared network resource. Password : No login allowed Primary group : New group with the same name as user Copy template files to the home directory? : No Create user in other modules? : No Creating a Samba shared network folder Username : samba Real name : Samba Home directory : Network Pseudo-user /srv/samba : Password : No login allowed Primary group : New group with the same name as user Copy template files to the home directory? : No Create user in other modules? : No The user will own all files in the shared directory, which we'll create in /srv/samba. This user will not be associated with anyone, and the account will not have the ability to log into our system. To simplify the management of file ownership and permissions, we will create a special pseudo-user named Samba. This shared resource must be stored on our server's disk and belong to a UNIX user. We will create a shared network folder accessible to multiple users. Navigate to Un-used Modules | Samba Windows File Sharing and click the link to download and install the package. On most systems, Webmin will automatically download the Samba package and its dependencies. If Samba is already installed, you will find the Samba Windows File Sharing module in the Servers section of Webmin's main menu otherwise, you will find it in the Un-used Modules section. To set up Windows file sharing on your server, you need to install the Samba package from your distribution repository.
