To export a directory to SMB clients (that is, to share a directory with a client), add a section like this to your smb.conf file, where label is what you would like to call the share, and path is the full directory path:
[ label ] path = path comment = share description guest ok = no writable = yes printable = no
These parameters are useful in directory shares:
guest ok Allows guest access to the share. The public parameter is a synonym.
writable A yes or true setting here marks the share as read-write. Do not allow guest access to a read-write share.
printable Specifies a printing share; this parameter must be set to no or false for a directory share.
veto files Prevents the export of any files that match the given patterns. You must enclose each pattern inside forward slashes (so that it looks like / pattern / ). Here's an example that bars object files, as well as any file or directory named bin :
veto files = /*.o/bin/
You can put a special section called [ homes ] in your smb.conf file if you want to export home directories to users. The section should look like this:
[homes] comment = home directories browseable = no writable = yes
By default, Samba reads the logged-in user 's /etc/passwd entry to determine the user's home directory for [homes] . However, if you don't want Samba to follow this behavior (that is, you want to keep the Windows home directories in a different place than the regular Linux home directories), you can use the %S substitution in a path parameter. Here is an example that switches a user's [homes] directory to /u/ user :
path = /u/%S
Samba substitutes the current username for the %S .