sudo chmod -R 0777 /home/myuser/Documents sudo chown -R nobody:nogroup /home/myuser/Documents sudo apt-get install samba sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf # put this at the bottom of the file with spaces indicated below [Documents] path = /home/myuser/Documents browsable = yes writable = yes guest ok = yes guest only = yes read only = no create mode = 0777 directory mode = 0777 force user = nobody sudo service smbd restart # on Debian su /etc/init.d/smbd restart