Folder Sharing With A Home Workgroup?

[soundchaser59]

We have been running 3 Windows machines and a Mac at home for several years. Since I frequently help others with their Windows-based docs and files, I had a folder on my machine that was shared to the entire house. Everyone had read/write/delete rights to anything in that folder, and they understood the advantages and the risks.

Now my machine is Linux (dual boot, so the Windows stuff is not gone yet) and I need to know how to make that same folder available again to the rest of the home network. I saved that folder to a usb stick when I made the switch to linux, and now I have that folder back on the hdd under my Linux profile. But since the Windows partition is still there, I could replicate that folder to the Windows part and share it from there, except I don't think that will work unless my machine is booted up to Windows instead of Linux. Is it possible for the other hdd space to be "open season" so things can be shared from there? Would I have to create another partition to do that?

Anybody have links to sites that give the quick and dirty on sharing Linux folders with a home workgroup? Or a doc describing how to?

[soundchaser59]

Apparently Samba makes this fairly simple? I downloaded Samba and did the share and permissions thing. I'm just waiting for one of the locals to tell me if they can see the folder.

If the folder is under my home dir, does that mean my user has to be logged on in order for the folder to be shared? Or is there some "better practice" way to create a generic path for folder sharing?

[woodsmoke]

http://www.howtogeek.com/191116/how-...-on-a-network/

woodsmoke

[soundchaser59]

http://www.howtogeek.com/191116/how-...-on-a-network/

woodsmoke

Thanks....did that, but she still can't see the shared folder from her Mac. I should wait til she's gone and toy with it myself.

[woodsmoke]

woodsmoke

[soundchaser59]

"Cannot join as standalone machine" when I tried to do net join to my home workgroup.

There was also an extra samba gui config thing to install, that allowed me to set a folder to be shared with all users on the home network.

But the Mac still cannot see the share.

Found some other links to "how to" articles I will peruse later.....

[soundchaser59]

Still have not figured out how to see a folder on my linux machine from my Windows machine, or vice versa.

[GreyGeek]

Have you tried ntfs-3g and ntfs-config?
That only works for Linux to Windows.

[soundchaser59]

Have you tried ntfs-3g and ntfs-config?
That only works for Linux to Windows.

No, but I'll research it. Thanks! Linux-to-Windows would be ok, as that's really the direction that I need it to go. The other way would just be a nice touch, but not vital...

[sithlord48]

https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/servergu...ileserver.html

you need to setup the samba server.. above is the ubuntu docs for this

[soundchaser59]

https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/servergu...ileserver.html

you need to setup the samba server.. above is the ubuntu docs for this

Thanks! Trying it now. That "security = user" line did not even exist in my smb.conf file, so I added it since the instructions assume it is already there.

[soundchaser59]

Tried that, still no luck seeing my shared folder (located in srv/samba/share/myfolder ) from my Windows machine. I even tried finding it by IP address and the Windows machine says the computer is not found, even though the workgroup name is correct.

[Snowhog]

What version of Kubuntu are you running?

[kent92]

Tried that, still no luck seeing my shared folder (located in srv/samba/share/myfolder ) from my Windows machine. I even tried finding it by IP address and the Windows machine says the computer is not found, even though the workgroup name is correct.

in your /etc/samba/smb.conf, you should have a something like this

[myfolder]
comment = myfolder
read only = no
locking = no
path = /media/myfolder

and in your /etc/fstab something like this

UUID="XXXXXXXXXXX" /media/myfolder ntfs-3g defaults,noatime,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0

yes?

Use blkid -command to get UUID of the device partition you want to share

[sithlord48]

and in your /etc/inittab something like this

don't you mean put that in /etc/fstab ?