SMB HOWTO: Sharing A Linux Drive With Windows Machines Sharing A Linux Drive With Windows Machines
As shown in the simple smb.conf above, sharing Linux drives with Windows users is easy. However, like everything else with Samba, you can control things to a large degree. Here are some examples:
To share a directory with the public, create a clone of the [tmp] section above by adding something like this to smb.conf: