Install samba from download ubuntu 16.04

#INSTALL SAMBA FROM DOWNLOAD UBUNTU 16.04 HOW TO#

This tutorial assumes that you are able to connect to your machine through the network using a remote session protocol such as SSH. To stop the output of this command you can press вЂњCTRL + CвЂќ and it will stop the command. If you see that you get an error when you run this command, that means that your network settings are not properly configured in your machine. If you get an output in your terminal similar to the one in the picture above, then your connection is working. $ ping * The command вЂњ pingвЂќ allows you to ping a specific website and see whether the website responds to it, allowing us to test that your connection to that website is working. In order to test that our network connection is working we will need to run the following command: We will also need a working Internet connection in order to be able to complete all the steps in this tutorial successfully. Save this number be cause we will be using it later on in the tutorial. In my case, I am using an Ethernet card with the name enp0s3, so my ip should be вЂњ10.100.153.244вЂќ. It will also depend on the network card which you are using where you will be able to see your IP. The IP address of your machine should be the number after вЂinetвЂ™. *The command вЂњ ip addressвЂќ Gives you the IP of your machine, useful to be able to connect through SSH to it. In order to find the IP of your machine you need to run the following command: This tutorial requires you to know what is the current IP of your machine. Basically giving you the functionality that most NAS boxes have these days. These two programs/services come in very handy when you would like to make a file server which can can also serve media to devices within your network or outside of it such as TVs, mobile devices and other devices.

Their server application connects remotely to their service to allow us to use an account to manage all our Plex servers and also to do many other interesting things. Plex Media Server, on the other hand, is a service and application that allow us to view media content which is stored in a specific machine in many other devices which can be located within our network or outside of our network. In our case, we will be using Samba to create a network folder in which we can place our files and be able to access them through our network from different devices. Samba is a suite of programs that allow us to share files through computers, as well as to send print jobs through a network to a specific machines.

Now that I have gotten that out of the way, we need to know what Samba and Plex are, as well as what they can do. However, You do not need to have followed those tutorials in order to perform all the steps in this one.

#INSTALL SAMBA FROM DOWNLOAD UBUNTU 16.04 HOW TO#

This tutorial is a continuation of the video tutorials previously produced by myself where I showed you how to install Ubuntu Server on an older computer (Videos: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). In this tutorial I will be showing you how you can install and configure Samba and Plex Media Server in your Ubuntu 16.04 server (or desktop).

Install samba from download ubuntu 16.04