Samba brings Windows PC's into a Liinux network.https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Samba and https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Samba/Guide

A kernel with SMB3 the successor of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) Network File System support is required.

The configuration is in /etc/samba/smb.conf and can/should be verified with testparm

Logfiles are in /var/log/samba

smbclient -L localhost