interoperability

Ubuntu: Creating a Samba/CIFS share to quickly share files with Windows

We live in a multi-platform world, and the ability to easily share folders of content between users in the same protected network is a function made very convenient in the Windows world with CIFS shares (e.g. \\mydesktop\sharedfolder). Luckily for Ubuntu users, it is pretty easy to setup CIFS shares to offer that same interoperability with Ubuntu: Creating a Samba/CIFS share to quickly share files with Windows