never touched this before, but here we go…
get all the instruction from the smb.conf file:
cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
make a copy of the conf file:
sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb-local.conf
edit the conf file:
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb-local.conf
comment out the bits you don’t want by adding a hash # at the start of the line.
restart the samba service:
sudo service samba restart
Have a read:
https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/ch06.html
You sir are a legend. I had to sign up to thank you. Since reinstalling my last instance of OSMC I couldn’t figure out how to see my external HDD library from my windows pc. This fixed it. Thanks again.
I have tried to install Samba from the OSMC app store but it fails to install, and running ‘sudo apt-get install smb-app-osmc’ gives me this:
Something is wrong with APT before you installed the package. Check the logs.
It looks like you tried to install Samba before installing the OSMC version. You should purge these packages.
There are a lot of packages on your system (i.e. Mono) which may be causing conflicts.
Sam
I had to install/upgrade mono for it to work with Radarr (from this post: [HOW-TO] Install Radarr v2 - #14 by OlKir)
Any idea on how to purge these packages?
sudo apt-get purge <package.name>Well…after purging mono and samba, OSMC won’t start anymore, loads of errors 
So I wouldn’t recommend any other people following this advice.
Oh well, starting from scratch will probably fix the problem as well, let’s hope thats the silver lining.
That advice is perfect for someone who has not installed all kinds of random, un-needed and possibly harmful packages. In the future, instead of following the advice of some site that appeared in a google search, try asking here
Can I install samba through the chorus2 web interface?
No. But you can send the following command from SSH.
Point taken, and very true. My apologies.