Ubuntu Tricks & Useful Commands

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\