Samba allows you to share your files with your Windows, Linux, Chrome OS computers, etc. It’s not really part of LAMP but for a development server it’s nice to have it.
1. Let’s install it
apt-get install samba
2. Edit the configuration file
vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
Change security to user (under [global] section) and add your folder at the bottom of the file
security = user
[php]
comment = PHP
browseable = yes
path = /var/www/html
guest ok = no
read only = no
writable = yes
force user = www-data
force group = www-data
3. Add a user and set it’s password
sudo adduser myuser
sudo smbpasswd -a myuser
4. Restart the service
service smbd restart
service nmbd restart