Setting up Samba share for a vmware OS

Sometimes it’s useful to be able to browse via the file system via a GUI. So on the advice of @AndyGale I installed Samba on my Ubuntu OS instance and created a share for the entire server. The first part of these instructions were from labs.boulevart.be.

1. open the samba config sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
2. change “security=user” to “security=share”
3. comment out “passdb backend = tdbsam” and “obey pam restrictions = yes”
4. add a line saying “map to guest = bad user”
5. comment out the lines beginning “passwd program =” and “passwd chat = “

Then we need to add a new share to the conf

[share]
    path = / 
    read only = no
    guest ok = yes