New guy here attempting to set up a samba share from a Ubuntu virtual machine.
I've got an ESXI server running various VMs, and one of them is a Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS machine.
I am simply trying to make a samba share accessible to Windows machines on my local network. I already know the machine is visible and accessible since I have a Plex server running on the machine that I'm able to access, and I'm able to ping the machine just fine.
I configured Samba following this tutorial: https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-and-configure-samba#1-overview
Seems pretty simple, but once I've gone through the whole guide... Samba appears to be running, but if I punch in the "\ip-address\sambashare" path in Windows Explorer, I just get an error indicating that Windows cannot access the path (it thinks it does not exist).
What am I missing in this basic setup? I've looked at a lot of other Samba guides and they all follow a similar outline, but some have other flags the basic Ubuntu tutorial doesn't mention.
I just can't seem to tell what's missing.
The testparm command just indicates "OK" so I assume the .conf file is fine.
The smbstatus command just shows an empty list (since there are no active connections).
I'm not sure how to tell if the share is actually working properly since Windows can't see it.
