Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix. People can browse a server directory like use Windows OS on their own computer.
It also could avoid the scp step if you want to download and open a text file in the server, yes, you could open any files on the server and edit it like on your own computer.
Here I will introduce the steps to set up Samba on CentOS in a home network. There may be a problem if someone wants to use this Samba function on Windows 10 systems with a server that …