dsfin-ansible/roles/samba-server/README.md

SAMBA Server Installation on Ubuntu Server using Ansible

There's a blog post that I wrote to go along with this. Check it out!

This role is helpful to install SAMBA server on Ubuntu server 14.04 LTS.

SAMBA Installation Tutorial - This step by step tutorial explains the installation and configuration of a SAMBA server on Ubuntu server.

To use this Role:

Edit the site.yml file, mentioned this role:

---
- hosts: server
  become: yes
  gather_facts: yes
  roles:
    - samba

After that edit the defaults/main.yml file:

Change the username(s) and their smbpassword, but these user(s) must exist on the target system. Also change the other values as per your requirement. These are self explanatory.

---
ubuntu_samba_packages:
  - samba
  - samba-common
  - python-glade2
  - system-config-samba
workgroup: WORKGROUP
public_share_name: public
public_share_path: /samba/public
private_share_name: private
private_share_path: /samba/private
samba_group_name: smbgrp
samba_users:
  - name: 'arbab'
    smbpasswd: 'pass123'
  - name: 'hussain'
    smbpasswd: 'password' 

Then run this command:

ansible-playbook -i hosts -u arbab site.yml

Note: Please don't forget to change arbab with your username