Note: remember to connect ethernet for large copies
sudo apt-get install -y samba && mkdir -p ~/smb-shared && chmod 0755 ~/smb-shared # find the network you're gonna share on, via: ip -4 -br addr # ...in the example below we're 192.168.0.247 sharing on 192.168.0.0/24 sudo tee /etc/samba/smb.conf >/dev/null <<'EOF' [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP server role = standalone server security = user map to guest = never min protocol = SMB2 hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/24 127.0.0.1 hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0 vfs objects = fruit streams_xattr fruit:metadata = stream fruit:model = MacSamba fruit:posix_rename = yes fruit:veto_appledouble = no logging = file log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m [myshare] path = /home/molsson/smb-shared browseable = yes read only = no valid users = molsson create mask = 0644 directory mask = 0755 EOF sudo smbpasswd -a molsson testparm -s && sudo systemctl enable --now smbd nmbd sudo ufw allow from 192.168.0.0/24 to any app Samba # in MacOS finder hit Cmd+K and enter for example: smb://192.168.0.247/myshare