Samba you almost definitely don't want on a production web server. It's quite useful on a home network so that you can transfer data easily between file shares however, and it also provides the service required for a windows machine to recognize a linux machine by hostname only.
Give yourself a samba password, and that's it!
Edit your Samba config to set up whatever shares you want. I change/add the following options as well:
Start samba up:
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