Simple Anonymous Samba File Server for Windows. Recipe 23.2.
Building a Simple Anonymous Samba File Server for Windows 23.2.1 Problem You have a Windows LAN, and you want reliable file sharing without spending a mint on a Windows server license, or having to upgrade hardware. Name resolution, TCP/IP, and Client for Microsoft Networks are installed and working, and all hosts can ping each other by either hostname or IP address.
You don't want to hassle with passwords and permissions and all those dreadful things. Solving Samba Problems. There are many sources of information available in the form of mailing lists, RFCs, and documentation.
The documentation that comes with the Samba distribution contains good explanations of general SMB topics such as browsing. With SMB networking, it is often not immediately clear what the cause is of a certain problem. Samba itself provides rather useful information, but in some cases you might have to fall back to using a sniffer. List Samba users. Linux + Samba file sharing setup.