23.3 Installing Samba on an Ubuntu System
The default settings used during the Ubuntu installation process do not typically install the necessary Samba packages. Unless you specifically requested that Samba be installed it is unlikely that you have Samba installed on your system. To check whether Samba is installed, open a terminal window and run the following command:
# apt -qq list samba-common samba smbclient
Any missing packages can be installed using the apt command-line tool:
# apt install samba-common samba smbclient