This guide assumes that you have a headless server up and running, if not refer to the following articles to set up your headless server. What hardware to choose for a headless Linux Server? What Linux OS to choose for a headless Linux Server? Step by Step guide to set up Ubuntu Server LTS I'd suggest you go with the latest Ubuntu Server LTS edition or the latest Debian release as they run pretty stable and have good online communities around them. This guide was written with Ubuntu Server16.04 LTS as reference. 1) Usually while installing the server editions of linux you have the option to install samba service or the samba file server. You can check whether samba(smb for short) is installed on your server with these commands. samba --version You should see the proper version number as shown above. You can also check if samba is installed by checking if samba config folder exists,you can do that by running the below command . cd...