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Ubuntu Tricks and Useful Commands

What you want Command(s) What it does
List all users lastlog Shows all users and when they last logged in
Enable Samba Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf
Add user with sudo smbpasswd -a user
Ensure service is started: sudo service smbd restart 		Enables you to access files from your host OS
Set the clock from ntp time sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org Sets your clock according to the time/date from pool.ntp.org

Allow samba acces to your files

Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and add something like:

[XXX-dev]
   comment = XXX Developer
   path = /home/XXX/<location>
   guest ok = no
   browseable = yes
   create mask = 0644
   directory mask = 0700

This allows access via \\<machine-IP>\XXX-dev\

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