Install Samba on Xubuntu 13.04

[motorcity909]

Hi all

Just looking for the correct command to install Samba (and the GUI) on a brand new install of Xubuntu 13.04.

I've found conflicting commands, the first of which sudo apt-get install samba4 took ages to run and had loads of things about creating DNS partitions, which seemed a bit over the top! Seemed like it was turning my entire machine into a server!

Then I tried sudo apt-get install samba system-config-samba cifs-utils which seemed to work and gave me a GUI to create some shares, which I could access from another computer and my phone.

However, within the GUI there was a weird error which related I think to the weird things from that earlier samba4 command.

And so, I had a bit of a panic and did sudo apt-get remove --purge samba, followed by sudo apt-get install samba system-config-samba cifs-utils again but then the GUI wouldn't start at all.

So I did another sudo apt-get remove --purge samba and have left it at that since.

So all I need are the simple lines to install samba with the GUI to share my music & video folders.

Many thanks as ever!

Dave

[Merrattic]

Not sure if this is still up to date, but appears to do the trick:

http://www.unixmen.com/how-to-config...ace-in-ubuntu/

(Installing samba4 is an option, just samba will do in most situations!). You may need to un-install samba4 ?)