Samba Server allows you to share the home directories of users automatically. This is useful so that you don’t have to manually setup the share for every user.

Here is my setup in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. First, to set the samba password for the user,

$ sudo smbpasswd -a username

$ sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

find the Share Definitions section and change the parameters as following,

#======================= Share Definitions =======================

[homes]

comment = Home Directories

browseable = yes

read only = no

valid users = %S

$ sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

This will share each user’s home directory as \\localserver\username.