How to share a drive?

[beun007]

Well, now we have enough information. Assuming that you boot Alice into Kubuntu when sharing its drive, I agree that Samba would work best. That way, you can access the drive from Bob no matter what operating system you've booted on Bob.

Fortunately, setting up Samba on Kubuntu has been documented.
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Kubuntu_...ng#Filesharing

Well, thank you so for but I think there is another problem. My external HD will not change it's rights. So, I guess I have to change it's owner before doing anything else...

[Feathers McGraw]

You can use:

sudo chown -R user:user /media/user/HDD

Where "user" is your username and "HDD" is the name of your mounted hard drive (you can find the name with ls -l /media/user/ ).

[GreyGeek]

Gerry, didn't Dr. Pepper mess you up? Or was that the diet version with all the aspartame?

The diet version ... NutraSweet (Aspartame). Other artificial sweeteners do not bother me. I've been using Stevia extract for all my beverages for the last 15 years.

[Feathers McGraw]

The diet version ... NutraSweet (Aspartame). Other artificial sweeteners do not bother me. I've been using Stevia extract for all my beverages for the last 15 years.

It's kind of weird (and cool) that I knew that

[beun007]

You can use:

sudo chown -R user:user /media/user/HDD

Where "user" is your username and "HDD" is the name of your mounted hard drive (you can find the name with ls -l /media/user/ ).

Doesn't work

[Feathers McGraw]

Doesn't work

You haven't given me much to go on there.

Post the error and the actual command you used, please, or nobody will be able to help you.