Samba on Ubuntu from command line

Instead of just right clicking on the folder and asking for it to be shared I decided to go command line and found this thread.

I found it simple enough to simply stop samba

>sudo /etc/init.d/samba stop

then make a back up of the /etc/smb.conf

add my projects directory similar to this


[MyFiles]
    path = /home/mydir/myprojectsdir
    browseable = yes
    read only = no
    guest ok = no
    create mask = 0644
    directory mask = 0755
    force user = YOUR_USERNAME
    force group = YOUR_USERGROUP


then start up samba and all was good.
>sudo /etc/init.d/samba start

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