I have samba installed and can see all the windows shares from kubuntu but the windows computer network can not see my kubuntu machine. When I go to system settings-sharing-file sharing and click administrator it asks for my root password but all the options are greyed out. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Would it be easier to edit my samba.conf file? I don't remember where that file is. Thanks
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Re: Windows Sharing Help Please
I realize you are using samba and not nfs, but open the adept package manager, search on nfs, and see if you have nfs-common and nfs-user-server installed. Until I installed these I had the same problem accessing the file sharing options.
IF you have nfs-kernel-server installed instead of nfs-user-server that should be ok as well, but make sure nfs-common is installed too. -
Re: Windows Sharing Help Please
i'm having a similar problem, in that the windows machines on my home network can't see my shared folders, but i can see the windows machines from my linux box. unlike maj, my samba stuff isn't greyed out. i've enabled simple file sharing, and added the folders i want to share to the shared list. i remember having a similar problem with dapper and eventually finding it was some security box somewhere i had to uncheck or check. i can't remember where it was though
edit: remembered that i thanked someone else in another post for posting the solution, and i found that post again just now. it was run kcontrol> internet and network> samba > admin mode > allow 'share' security level.Comment
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