Share a folder from your Vortexbox

If you need some additional shares except the default ones (music, movies, pictures, files) just create them. Only a few steps need to be done, and it only takes a few minutes. Before making any changes to smb.conf backup the original one.

1. Add a new section to the smb.conf
   Connect to the vortexbox with SSH and open smb.conf with an editor.
   
   e.g:

   nano file /etc/samba/smb.conf

   
   
   add following section:

 ###### Share for temporary data sharing #########
[Sharename]
path = /home/trash
guest ok = yes
writeable = yes
# create mask = 0777


explaination:

[Sharename] - the name of the share, it can be different from the diretory name
path - path to the directory on OS layer
guest ok - everyone in the network can access the folder
writable - it's writable for everyone in the network
create mask - permissions for "owner", "group", "other" as typically on Linux OS. 777 means that all 3 groups have "read", "write", "execute" permissions. default value is 744. Note: in my example it is uncommented



2. Reload smb.conf and restart smb daemon



service smb reload
service smb restart