Help Setting Up Samba on Debian

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OK so I've been trying to set up a home server the last few days. 2 days ago I got Samba working on Debian 8.6 (finally) and I could access the files from the Windows computers at home and I copied the files from our old hard drives over to the network. Then yesterday I shut the computer down to re do some cabling and stuff and I was working on trying to get it so I could access the home server even when not on the network when I realized it wasn't even visible on my home wifi network anymore. Wat. So following some instructions I completely reinstalled Samba with :

sudo apt-get remove --purge samba
sudo apt-get install samba

and then

sudo apt-get remove --purge smbclient libsmbclient
sudo apt-get install smbclient libsmbclient

(Well without the sudo. I already used su so I was root).

 

And I went into the smbd.conf file and edited it to add all my network shares at the end, and...

It worked. It showed up. But then completely randomly it disappeared from the network.

 

So I want to make sure, after reinstalling Samba, is this what you're supposed to do, assuming I have folders /home/user/family, /home/user/user1, and /home/user/user2 that I want to setup and users user1 and user2 and both should be able to access family, only user1 access user1, and only user2 access user2 (also assuming I've already made the folders)?

 

smbpasswd -a user1

(enter password)

smbpasswd -a user2

(enter password)

chown user1 /home/user/family

chown user1 /home/user/user1

chown user2 /home/user/family

chown user2 /home/user/user2

cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.bak (just in case)

nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

 

Now, I'm not sure on what I'm supposed to do with the smb.conf file. Do I just add in the following to the end? Do I delete everything and redo it?

 

[family]
path = /home/user/family
valid users = user1, user2
read only = no

[user1]
path = /home/user/user1
valid users = user1
read only = no

[user2]
path = /home/user/user2
valid users = user2
read only = no

Any help is greatly appreciated