I like the the natural pixie in her natural state. You should not feel that you need to point out that you are not wearing makeup. As if you are any less beautiful without makeup. We love you for who you are just how you are inside and out. We love the fact that you relish us in great knowledge and wisdom. If someone does not, then they do not deserve needing an acknowledgement.
Strange not seeing the revision3 stinger at the end. Great for you for producing these on your own. I always enjoy your quick nifty tutorials. Keep up the awesome!
Back in business! I like that! I was used to follow your tips on r3, actually I was looking forward to see you back there! Finally I decided to search for your nick on youtube and boom: I've found your channel!! I'm so happy to see you again. Keep up the good job and thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
I switched to Unity from KDE for that exact reason. Now that may sound a bit weird, but the reason why I say that is because KDE just feels like a steam-powered locomotive under the hood, whereas Unity is *much* faster (and actually, Gnome even more). IMO of course.
Instead of using 'cat /etc/passwd' or 'cat /etc/group' I'd recommend to use 'getent passwd' ('getent group) which also works in case you have an alternative login-mechanism set up such as e.g. ldap.
THANKS SO MUCH!!!!! I spent all weekend staying up till 3 every night and waking up early to try to do this. I have a linux mint server with 8 hard drives on it. I wanted to make a network drive for my linux and windows computers so I could sync the files for backup. This video really helped!!!
Wow, this is really one of the best videos ever. I wish I would have found this the first time I tried to setup samba. Instead I got some BS hoops that took me hours to sift through.
Been playing with NAS4Free. While the initial setup is a bit more than 5 minutes, the end result is better than 'buntu file sharing. Having file systems that play nice, but are different is (supposedly) also a good idea from a security viewpoin. Runs smoothly on a 4 year old ATOM 330/ION box, which is more than 'buntu ever did. ;) There's OpenMediaVault which is built on Debian for those who need Linux.
I finally got a small server(folder share) working between xbuntu and win7. I had to view other youtube tutorials to understand how to get it up and running. the problem i was having other than trying to get it set up by pausing your video( on my desktop) and typing what you type on my laptop, was that i was busy fantasying.(lol) but seriously youtube videos don't pause when you need them to if the video is fast.. slow down.. it's a video.. take a few minutes to explain what you are doing and let the people your trying to help follow along. Hell, it's not you're in a race to teach. you don't have to beat the other guy(s), in speed, just in knowledge.
Instead of setting a random password on the account you may want to do a sudo passwd -l sambaguest This locks the account via setting it to an invalid string that can never be matched. This is also good for setting up accounts that you can ssh into with key auth and not a password.
Is Umbumtu the best version for servers? Or are you using it to be an easy intro? 4 years later I am finding this an awesome tutorial. Thanks for post.
You can just install ssh server and avahi daemon and setup ssh keys and your whole file system will exposed in network section of file manager locked by your login password or by ssh key. Also ftps/ftp and webdav is nice ways to share things especialy if you have one dedicated file server in network. All this solutions much more stable then samba. Ftp is supported by almost all platforms. I can access my ftp shared files even with J2ME cell phone.
Hey nixie can you do a show on installing cinnamon on ubuntu ( yeah thats right you can ) for those users that dont like unity ....glad to see you back
Nixie, I would love to see you start doing more enterprise grade videos. I think you could seriously expand your audience base. Not that you need to, but I think the benefit would be all ours. You're excellent at what you do and I'd like to see more people realize that. Humor me.... (just for fun), do a video on Chef (Opscode) and see what kind of response you get. Plus, it's some great new stuff that's maturing at an exponential rate. Cheers!
Hey Nixie, not sure if you are familiar with Webmin, but I find it easier to use especially if you like a GUI interface over command line and it does so much more than just samba.
Well, it's 2018 now, and I had to stop as soon as I heard "Samba." It seems Samba is now called smbd and has changed. Couldn't find either pkg by searching for software. It appears smbd is pre-installed, but... I couldn't get it to even start. It says "failed due to error messages..." tinkered for hours, based on forums saying to uninstall, reinstall, restart, reconfigure etc. Still won't run. This crap is too hard on Linux. In OSX you just click a few things and voila! Network! In Linux, it seems there are always some bugs or changes in the newer versions that interfere with installing or running things. Forums include "fixes" that don't work because of a missing or extra "-", newer versions with different commands, etc. The price of freedom perhaps, but it might be too high for me. I'm considering going back to OSX. Sad, but "I'm too old for this shit." Time is too precious to waste on things that don't work.
Unity and Gnome are DEs for the average person while KDE is not. Therefore, Unity and Gnome seem more limited. I'm an advanced user and I love Unity because it's really fast (except in 12.10; I'm still on 12.04) and it's more productive once you learn to use the lenses and other features (just remove the amazon lens and it's perfect)
I know it's a bit outside your remit but I'd love to see you do a oculus rift dev kit video with relation to linux. Currently, it seems to be very sink or swim and I'd like to see more minos out there!
Excellent tutorial, it is very sad that basic security like that has been let go in modern Linux versions. I think a lot of the basic security principles of Unix have been forgotten - give me OpenBSD any day :)
You will need samba else it won't recognize the filesystem or users. There are a few others but samba is the best for a home file system. I got it running on my Raspberry Pi cluster at home.
Needless to say Gorgeous, it took you not time at all, Me however, it will take time to do what you did, even if I watched your video while I attempted to do this on my own... LOL... Keep up the excellent work, you will force me to learn Linux if it kills me... LOL...
Julian, you're not the Lone Ranger! lllove Nixie 4-ever but I must admit, I was lost about 30 seconds in. I adore Ubuntu and Gnome but have such limited knowledge as to things just slightly above sudo apt-get!
After creating the sambaguest user I am able to view the account in terminal and see that it is a member of the sambashare group. But when I realized I have forgotten to set the shell as /bin/false I tried to go back into Users and Groups to make the change and the account no longer appears. I am brand new to Linux so I'm sure I'm missing something basic. I'm currently running Ubuntu server 18.04 with Mate gui. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I realize this video is quite dated but as many of your other respondents have noted, it is very well done and quite simple to follow.
Nevermind - figured it out . After setting the ID to less than 1000 the account no longer shows up in the GUI user settings program. After using the command "sudo usermod -u [UID] sambaguest" to reset the User ID above 1000 I was able to see the account again.
How on Earth do I change/modify/delete the accout we created that was 'disabled' and now 'invisable'? Thanks in advance. And THANK YOU for showing this, struggled with such an easy feat for too long till I found this!!!
This worked great for months until I upgraded to 14.04. Now when I try to access the server from a different computer, it says "Invalid Username or Password. Please Try Again." Tried backtracking through each of the setting and there were one or two things that had changed i.e. the group that the Folder belonged to reverted back to the user rather than Sambashare however, I still can't figure out what's wrong after changing everything I can find back to the way it was.
Hmmm... After doing that, I am still getting permission issues when attempting to create a folder (reading a file was fine). Permissions look all fine except in the Change Permissions for Enclosed Files window. For some reason it refuses to accept any changes and will ignore any I attempt to make. Using 13.10 and my folder I wish to host is in my home directory. Anyone have a clue what might be happening and how I can fix it?
maybe you did a setting wrong... I had this problem too... The user didn't go anywhere, just you can see it from GUI... But, you can delete it from terminal if you know the name and create another user... you just need to pay attention to all the settings and it will work fine!
i wish you would setup stuff and do tutorials through config files and the command line.. this is easy to figure out.. but people do manage servers that have no guis
chmod 777 is great! just spread a bunch of viruses and root kits around your pc; someone trys to break in? Boom! root kit =D and no more fussy permission issues for you!
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Very good..
Nice.
Why would you use that over BtSync?
Idk this seems to have more to setup to get it up and running.
Nixie, making Ubuntu tutorials is where you shine. Stick with it.
I like the the natural pixie in her natural state. You should not feel that you need to point out that you are not wearing makeup. As if you are any less beautiful without makeup. We love you for who you are just how you are inside and out. We love the fact that you relish us in great knowledge and wisdom. If someone does not, then they do not deserve needing an acknowledgement.
What a beauty!! When she used the word "bad ass" my mind started wandering all over
Nixie, I knew how to set up SAMBA sharing before but I must congratulate you on this very speedy succinct summary.
Strange not seeing the revision3 stinger at the end. Great for you for producing these on your own. I always enjoy your quick nifty tutorials. Keep up the awesome!
Back in business! I like that! I was used to follow your tips on r3, actually I was looking forward to see you back there! Finally I decided to search for your nick on youtube and boom: I've found your channel!! I'm so happy to see you again. Keep up the good job and thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
I think it's terrific that they're making operations more and more accessible through GUI utilities.
I switched to Unity from KDE for that exact reason. Now that may sound a bit weird, but the reason why I say that is because KDE just feels like a steam-powered locomotive under the hood, whereas Unity is *much* faster (and actually, Gnome even more). IMO of course.
It's in the "More" section of the description. Hope that helps!
Dear God, I remember 2009 Nixie. I've spent way too much time on RUclips.
Instead of using 'cat /etc/passwd' or 'cat /etc/group' I'd recommend to use 'getent passwd' ('getent group) which also works in case you have an alternative login-mechanism set up such as e.g. ldap.
I hate being negative but I just feel that I'd need to watch this a dozen times to understand what I'm supposed to do.
THANKS SO MUCH!!!!! I spent all weekend staying up till 3 every night and waking up early to try to do this. I have a linux mint server with 8 hard drives on it. I wanted to make a network drive for my linux and windows computers so I could sync the files for backup. This video really helped!!!
Your videos really improved in the years, i like your genuinely type of hosting
its so heavenly nice to listen to you, so everytime i work with unix, i play this playlist with 73 clips on repeat :D
Wow, this is really one of the best videos ever. I wish I would have found this the first time I tried to setup samba. Instead I got some BS hoops that took me hours to sift through.
That's funny. I just have that problem wird my raspberrypi.
Thanks for the video. I'm glad that your back :)
If you're going to use the gui, you should make windows videos. I mean, we're impressed with your clicky skills.
Been playing with NAS4Free. While the initial setup is a bit more than 5 minutes, the end result is better than 'buntu file sharing. Having file systems that play nice, but are different is (supposedly) also a good idea from a security viewpoin. Runs smoothly on a 4 year old ATOM 330/ION box, which is more than 'buntu ever did. ;)
There's OpenMediaVault which is built on Debian for those who need Linux.
This one was great. Long time looking for a tutorial to set-up Samba plain and simple like this one.
I tend to manage my Samba shares with Webmin. But I do use those same settings. Good tutorial.
haha read an article only this afternoon telling me to use Nautilus for file sharing... thanks Nixie Pixel :)
I finally got a small server(folder share) working between xbuntu and win7. I had to view other youtube tutorials to understand how to get it up and running. the problem i was having other than trying to get it set up by pausing your video( on my desktop) and typing what you type on my laptop, was that i was busy fantasying.(lol)
but seriously youtube videos don't pause when you need them to if the video is fast.. slow down.. it's a video.. take a few minutes to explain what you are doing and let the people your trying to help follow along. Hell, it's not you're in a race to teach. you don't have to beat the other guy(s), in speed, just in knowledge.
Yay! Thank you for updating that 2009 video....makes much more sense for newbie linux types like me. :) Yay!
Instead of setting a random password on the account you may want to do a sudo passwd -l sambaguest
This locks the account via setting it to an invalid string that can never be matched. This is also good for setting up accounts that you can ssh into with key auth and not a password.
samba has come a long way so you did your best 4 years ago ;)
Sweet video and to the point, love the way you dont mess around and get streight to the action!!!
Thanks for the tutorial, going to give this a go.
Very professional and easy to understand! So glad your videos are back.
Is Umbumtu the best version for servers? Or are you using it to be an easy intro?
4 years later I am finding this an awesome tutorial. Thanks for post.
You're in Seattle? Cool. Anyway, great vid, thanks! Watching that set up made my brain tingle :)
Linux has come so far in the past few years
You can just install ssh server and avahi daemon and setup ssh keys and your whole file system will exposed in network section of file manager locked by your login password or by ssh key.
Also ftps/ftp and webdav is nice ways to share things especialy if you have one dedicated file server in network.
All this solutions much more stable then samba. Ftp is supported by almost all platforms. I can access my ftp shared files even with J2ME cell phone.
nice to see you regularly uploading videos again!
good to see you back better then ever!
omg I love you nixie!!! I missed you, Im happy to see you again :P
I love your Linux tutorial videos. Keep them coming.
That wallpaper is amazing.
Hey nixie can you do a show on installing cinnamon on ubuntu ( yeah thats right you can ) for those users that dont like unity ....glad to see you back
Nixie, I would love to see you start doing more enterprise grade videos. I think you could seriously expand your audience base. Not that you need to, but I think the benefit would be all ours. You're excellent at what you do and I'd like to see more people realize that. Humor me.... (just for fun), do a video on Chef (Opscode) and see what kind of response you get. Plus, it's some great new stuff that's maturing at an exponential rate.
Cheers!
I NEEDED THIS VIDEO FOR YEARS!
Thanks Nixie for this video! it's great! Despite the fact that I have some experience on Linux, i didn't know about this app.. Thanks again!
I'm in love :) The only recommendation I have is use something more secure and less exploitable than ubuntu/unity.
Oh, thank you! I been trying to do that for years in my virtualbox machines!!!
i appreciate your detailed reviews Nixie. Thank you.
Hey Nixie, not sure if you are familiar with Webmin, but I find it easier to use especially if you like a GUI interface over command line and it does so much more than just samba.
I set up a secure SAMBA system a few years back, except I used gedit and edited everything manually. No fun UI's. It was hell but it worked.
Well, it's 2018 now, and I had to stop as soon as I heard "Samba." It seems Samba is now called smbd and has changed.
Couldn't find either pkg by searching for software. It appears smbd is pre-installed, but... I couldn't get it to even start. It says "failed due to error messages..." tinkered for hours, based on forums saying to uninstall, reinstall, restart, reconfigure etc. Still won't run.
This crap is too hard on Linux. In OSX you just click a few things and voila! Network! In Linux, it seems there are always some bugs or changes in the newer versions that interfere with installing or running things.
Forums include "fixes" that don't work because of a missing or extra "-", newer versions with different commands, etc.
The price of freedom perhaps, but it might be too high for me. I'm considering going back to OSX.
Sad, but "I'm too old for this shit." Time is too precious to waste on things that don't work.
So wt will you recommend to a newbie like me, if i want to set up a file server(os and software) at home using a used computer
Hey Nixie! New fan. You're inspiring my interest in Linux. OK, I enjoy watching for you as well ;-)
Unity and Gnome are DEs for the average person while KDE is not. Therefore, Unity and Gnome seem more limited. I'm an advanced user and I love Unity because it's really fast (except in 12.10; I'm still on 12.04) and it's more productive once you learn to use the lenses and other features (just remove the amazon lens and it's perfect)
I know it's a bit outside your remit but I'd love to see you do a oculus rift dev kit video with relation to linux. Currently, it seems to be very sink or swim and I'd like to see more minos out there!
Your ubuntu skills make me want to use ubuntu! but its different and scary :(.
This is an amazing video tutorial. I'm going to try to apply it on an ubuntu server 14.04.1. wish me luck.
i hope you will start making more CLI tutorials
I certainly hope your day job is as a Linux administrator.... cause you are good!!!!! Enjoyed the vid!
Nice to have you back :)
Nice and easy Nixie. Great work and thanks
Glad to see you posting videos again! Great video, thanks!
Great for Ubuntu users, but poor for opensuse/fedora/debian user's. Wow don't want the spyware.
P.S Great tut !! keep it up!
Nicest informed Samba share setup guide I've seen :-)
HA! Your filename was llama. Majestic af.
Damn, everytime i watch your videos i learn shit tons of new stuff, thanks :)
frankly i love ur style.
Excellent tutorial, it is very sad that basic security like that has been let go in modern Linux versions. I think a lot of the basic security principles of Unix have been forgotten - give me OpenBSD any day :)
You will need samba else it won't recognize the filesystem or users. There are a few others but samba is the best for a home file system. I got it running on my Raspberry Pi cluster at home.
this has given me pause been thinking of setting up a linux/unix box for file shareing thanks for shareing this .
Needless to say Gorgeous, it took you not time at all, Me however, it will take time to do what you did, even if I watched your video while I attempted to do this on my own... LOL... Keep up the excellent work, you will force me to learn Linux if it kills me... LOL...
Hey Nixie - thanks for the awesome tut! Any chance doing something about rolling your own NAS or similar?
im pretty sure doing this in the terminal is faster and more simple. still, helpful video no matter what type of shell you use
Best post in a while
Happy to see you again ;)
5 minutes if you are familiar with the command line nixie pixel, unix guru!
Your video was exactly what I needed thank you for sharing your knowledge
WOW you're from Seattle?! I just recently moved here :) I love it
Julian, you're not the Lone Ranger! lllove Nixie 4-ever but I must admit, I was lost about 30 seconds in. I adore Ubuntu and Gnome but have such limited knowledge as to things just slightly above sudo apt-get!
After creating the sambaguest user I am able to view the account in terminal and see that it is a member of the sambashare group. But when I realized I have forgotten to set the shell as /bin/false I tried to go back into Users and Groups to make the change and the account no longer appears. I am brand new to Linux so I'm sure I'm missing something basic. I'm currently running Ubuntu server 18.04 with Mate gui. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I realize this video is quite dated but as many of your other respondents have noted, it is very well done and quite simple to follow.
Nevermind - figured it out . After setting the ID to less than 1000 the account no longer shows up in the GUI user settings program. After using the command "sudo usermod -u [UID] sambaguest" to reset the User ID above 1000 I was able to see the account again.
:D Just did the same yesterday. Nice one!
Loved it. Great Video. Thanks.
I'm using Windows 8.1 preview now. I'll be generous and give you a whole day to brute-force mine :)
How on Earth do I change/modify/delete the accout we created that was 'disabled' and now 'invisable'? Thanks in advance. And THANK YOU for showing this, struggled with such an easy feat for too long till I found this!!!
Great!! Very useful and very well explained. Thanks.
This worked great for months until I upgraded to 14.04. Now when I try to access the server from a different computer, it says "Invalid Username or Password. Please Try Again." Tried backtracking through each of the setting and there were one or two things that had changed i.e. the group that the Folder belonged to reverted back to the user rather than Sambashare however, I still can't figure out what's wrong after changing everything I can find back to the way it was.
Try running: sudo smbpasswd -a $USER , and set a password for your user. You can now authenticate as your user and should be ok
Hmmm... After doing that, I am still getting permission issues when attempting to create a folder (reading a file was fine). Permissions look all fine except in the Change Permissions for Enclosed Files window. For some reason it refuses to accept any changes and will ignore any I attempt to make.
Using 13.10 and my folder I wish to host is in my home directory. Anyone have a clue what might be happening and how I can fix it?
Great video Nixie! One thing though, im not about to see the workgroup through "Windows Shares" in ubuntu, I should see it there right?
Amazing video. You've really outdone yourself :-) keep them coming ;-)
this was pretty awesome info, i didn't know naut was like that.
Imho I think I only watch your videos for the catchy intro. =P
Solid samba config, for maximum security smbd/nmbd minut run on it's PWN userr too
if you could show us how to dual boot between "ubuntu" and "android" on nexus 7 that would be great .....all the best ! :)
maybe you did a setting wrong... I had this problem too... The user didn't go anywhere, just you can see it from GUI... But, you can delete it from terminal if you know the name and create another user... you just need to pay attention to all the settings and it will work fine!
There you go. Sure looks like your learning
i wish you would setup stuff and do tutorials through config files and the command line.. this is easy to figure out.. but people do manage servers that have no guis
That worked just swell. Thanks.
Hello!
There is Linux Mint and openSuse, what is the reason you are using Ubuntu?
everybody has a taste of choosing which operating system comfortable with
Because Ubuntu is better.
Personally ubuntu is my favorite OS. I'm most comfortable with it
Now I challenge you to show people how to do the exact same thing in Linux Mint Cinnamon or Mate.
awesome video very detailed good job :)
Helpful video. I thought you went through things a bit fast at times though.
fantastic! thanks for the security tips.
Kudos. Great video Nixie. :)
instead of 'cat /etc/whatever', you instead do 'sudo nano /etc/whatever' and use nano to change '/bin/sh' to '/bin/false'
chmod 777 is great! just spread a bunch of viruses and root kits around your pc; someone trys to break in? Boom! root kit =D and no more fussy permission issues for you!