Like the title. How do we create a shared folder in the terminal. Preferable a samba share for Windows. Right now I’m using thunar-shares-plugin but I would like to know a terminal alternative.
Hello @Mixalis1987 
I would say, this way it should work for only your user account:
- copy the smb.conf to your home folder:
cp /etc/samba/smb.conf $HOME/smb.conf
- edit the file. Here is a example template for a share:
[<folder_name>]
path = /home/<user_name>/<folder_name>
available = yes
valid users = <user_name>
read only = no
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
- Set a password for your user:
sudo smbpasswd -a <user_name>
- restart the samba service after editing the
smb.conf:
sudo systemctl restart smb.service
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Thank you. I will give that a test run when I can and let you know the result. So it looks like to create a share folder it needs to be made in the conf file.