Samba in Debian Edu
Samba is now configured as standalone server with modern SMB2/SMB3 support and usershares enabled, see /etc/samba/smb-debian-edu.conf on the main server. This way non-admin users are enabled to provide shares.
For site specific changes, copy /usr/share/debian-edu-config/smb.conf.edu-site to the /etc/samba directory. The settings in smb.conf.edu-site will override those contained in smb-debian-edu.conf.
Please note:
By default, home directories are read only. This can be changed in /etc/samba/smb.conf.edu-site.
Samba passwords are stored using smbpasswd and are updated in case a password is changed using GOsa².
To temporarily disable a user's Samba account, run smbpasswd -d <username>, smbpasswd -e <username> will re-enable it.
Running chown root:teachers /var/lib/samba/usershares on the main server will disable usershares for 'students'.
Accessing files via Samba
Connections to a user's home directory and to additional site specific shares (if configured) are possible for devices running Linux, Android, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, Chrome OS or Windows. For example, Android based devices require a file manager with SMB2/SMB3 support, also known as LAN access. X-plore or Total Commander with LAN plugin might be a good choice.
Use \\tjener\<username> or smb://tjener/<username> to access the home directory.