How can I run samba?

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Published on 2011-03-08T07:49:28Z Indexed on 2011/03/08 8:19 UTC
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I have server running Ubuntu 10.10. Never used samba before, as I never had windows machines, but now I need it.

So I did: apt-get install samba smbfs smbclient.

Packages are installed, but I have no idea how to configure it. All howtos I found on the net relate to /etc/samba/something.conf, where I don't even have /etc/samba directory.

The only config I found is /etc/default/samba, which contains (aside from comments) only:

RUN_MODE="daemons"

All I want is to be able to have access to some directories on the Ubuntu machine from Windows, nothing else.

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