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Mastering Ubuntu Server - Second Edition

By : Jay LaCroix
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Mastering Ubuntu Server - Second Edition

By: Jay LaCroix

Overview of this book

Ubuntu Server has taken the data centers by storm. Whether you're deploying Ubuntu for a large-scale project or for a small office, it is a stable, customizable, and powerful Linux distribution that leads the way with innovative and cutting-edge features. For both simple and complex server deployments, Ubuntu's flexible nature can be easily adapted to meet to the needs of your organization. With this book as your guide, you will learn all about Ubuntu Server, from initial deployment to creating production-ready resources for your network. The book begins with the concept of user management, group management, and filesystem permissions. Continuing into managing storage volumes, you will learn how to format storage devices, utilize logical volume management, and monitor disk usage. Later, you will learn how to virtualize hosts and applications, which will cover setting up KVM/QEMU, as well as containerization with both Docker and LXD. As the book continues, you will learn how to automate configuration with Ansible, as well as take a look at writing scripts. Lastly, you will explore best practices and troubleshooting techniques when working with Ubuntu Server that are applicable to real-world scenarios. By the end of the book, you will be an expert Ubuntu Server administrator who is well-versed in its advanced concepts.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)

Sharing files with Windows users via Samba

In this section, I'll walk you through setting up your very own Samba file server. I'll also go over a sample configuration to get you started so that you can add your own shares.

First, we'll need to make sure that the samba package is installed on our server:

sudo apt install samba 

When you install the samba package, you'll have a new daemon installed on your server, smbd. The smbd daemon will be automatically started and enabled for you. You'll also be provided with a default configuration file for Samba, located at /etc/samba/smb.conf. For now, I recommend stopping Samba since we have yet to configure it:

sudo systemctl stop smbd 

Since we're going to configure Samba from scratch, we should start with an empty configuration file. Let's back up the original file, rather than overwrite it. The default...