This is my advice, and it can be browseable from any OS. It's not samba, i know, but it is the same functionality.
I won't install samba again since vsftp is working very nice on my server.
My father can upload/download files from his windows file explorer like any other folder.
Nautilus supports it too, so at the end it feels the same.
If you don't have a big network, it's a possible solution IMO.
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