For some mysterious reason, Ubuntu doesn’t come with Samba pre-installed and ready to roll right out of the box. This is a bit strange to me since Ubuntu has a reputation as being the most user-friendly Linux distribution around.

Anyway, I’ve saved anyone looking to get Samba up and running on a Ubuntu distro the hassle of scouring the threads at ubuntuforums.org and found the following two excellent tutorials:

HOWTO: Setup Samba peer-to-peer with Windows

How to share files using Samba (the more secure way)

Enjoy.