Some Observations
I went through the Samba setup really quickly because this tutorial is meant to be a very simple file server setup. You can do a great many things with Samba and there are tutorials all over the Internet describing how. A simple Google search is all you need. If you want to allow multiple users and hide files from each other, you will need to edit your Samba configuration file more. But if you just want something to hold your files, this is perfectly fine.
One final note: To keep your file server up-to-date, every once in a while, run those update and upgrade commands from the setup. For the forgetful types, they are: "sudo apt-get update" and "sudo apt-get upgrade" respectively.
I went through the Samba setup really quickly because this tutorial is meant to be a very simple file server setup. You can do a great many things with Samba and there are tutorials all over the Internet describing how. A simple Google search is all you need. If you want to allow multiple users and hide files from each other, you will need to edit your Samba configuration file more. But if you just want something to hold your files, this is perfectly fine.
One final note: To keep your file server up-to-date, every once in a while, run those update and upgrade commands from the setup. For the forgetful types, they are: "sudo apt-get update" and "sudo apt-get upgrade" respectively.