A while back, rather than add in a new Samba share through the /etc/samba/smb.conf file, I used the GUI tool to add the share. When I went looking to edit some shares tonight, I started digging through the config files… to my initial surprise I was unable to find the share locations in the config file.

A little more searching, and I found the files located in /var/lib/samba/usershares/. I guess the GUI adds a text file for each share into this directory. In a way, I like this slightly better for organization. Yet it confused me at first expecting to find the results in the main config file.

After searching, apparently the smb.conf is old school for share locations. This was introduced into Samba v3.0.23, which itself is from 2007 or so. Guess I need to get out more. Now I want to look if this is the “default” for Ubuntu Server.

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