Samba: share Linux Folders with your windows machines

[ForeverWiked]

What if I just want to share between Linux machines? Will this work too?

[PrEmIsBoReD]

can you post ur conf file on the description or smth

cuz i think smth's wrong

[jonathanjduncan]

For some reason i dont have samba restart file in my init.d directory. I just reboot the whole machine, but the server wont work so im thinking the samba restart i really important. Any ideas?

[technoblogical]

@jonathanjduncan The Samba would have restarted with the reboot. You could always try to uninstall and reinstall samba (sudo apt-get remove samba). Maybe something went corrupt in your installation.

[mangokat]

thanks man! you seriously saved my life with this. been googling for HOURS and nothing worked. now it's perfect! :D

[jcao219]

Thank you!

[cbjma]

Thanks. All the other examples I saw relied on the GUI and mine is a server only.  Worked perfectly.

[c2itcurlyfry]

when i type in sudo vim /etc/samba/smb. conf it dose not show me the screen that shows my workgroup. how do i fix that?

[DerCerberus]

Great video tutorial techno, thanks :D

[Boxofclocks]

Hey, thanks for the video. I'm confused over the difference between the GUI & the manual setup you do in the video. Your method in the video works, but the GUI is so much easier. If I set 'public' in GUI it's a snap, but I don't want 'public'. Your manual method does what I want (with password protection), but it's a pain. Do you know if I can set password protection with the GUI.

The missing piece for the GUI setup is the user/pass, which I guess I'm not doing right, because nothing works.

[Lucasabusharkh361]

thx! can u make a video that shows how to share a printer over samba?

[Lucasabusharkh361]

where is the smb.conf located and what should be in there? and about the last part of the video when the text file is created i cant edit it on my other machine what do i need to change?

[technoblogical]

All the commands that I use are in the video description..

[RabbiTzedakah]

I also have an Apple Mac running Snow Leopard and from the Linux PC Computer icon >> Network icon >> sometimes the Macbook icon shows up. I enabled File Sharing from the Macbook but when I click on the Macbook icon I don't see anything.

Also sometimes from the Linux PC Network icon I don't see the Macbook icon. Why is that?

Like I said i didn't edit the smb.conf file yet.

Thanks again.

[technoblogical]

smb.conf causes the computer to remember the settings. If you reboot, it won't hold all that info. I wish I could help you on the Mac, but I'm a windows guy. I could count on one hand the times I've worked on a Mac.

[RabbiTzedakah]

Thank you very much.

[RabbiTzedakah]

Hi again, I don't understand the "chown techno:techno realname" part. Is techno the username(login name) in your windows PC?

[technoblogical]

Good Question! Chown stands for "change ownership". If it remained root's folder then no one would be able to write to it but root.

"Techno:Techno" means that Techno the user owns it. And Techno the group owns it. Yes, there is a user and group with the same name.

"realname" is the name as the Linux machine sees it. I didn't point out. Windows sees "Sharename". Real names of folders don't have to match share names.

syntax is

chown "user that owns it":"Group that owns it" "folder name"

[technoblogical]

and that user name is the Linux username not the Windows user name. the only way that I would get to use the same name on both is if both were in a "single sign on" environment. In this video, they are a workgroup and not in a domain. So that isn't happening. However, I may coincidentally be using the same name on both machines.

[RabbiTzedakah]

thanks again so much. I figured out the techno user name part but your explanation about the chown was helpful. Your reply is the fastest among all the forums or websites I have used. :)

[RabbiTzedakah]

Hi, i am quite new to Linux and I have Debian which is said to be quite similar to Ubuntu.

Anyway, I installed samba on my Linux PC and I on the desktop(GNOME) Computer icon >> Network icon >> I see my Windows PC icon and I can see my shared C drive and copy/paste files from the Windows PC to my Linux server.

I did not configure smb.conf like this video which I am planning to do.

So what exactly does the smb.conf do?

Thanks

[michillin212]

Okay everyone nice vid by the way but. I couldn't do it i assume it is because my smb.conf is blank any1 have any advice?

[technoblogical]

Google "6. General Configuration (/etc/smb.conf)"

There's a sample smb.conf there.

or

reinstall with...

apt-get --purge remove samba

apt-get install samba

[michillin212]

@technoblogical Thank you sooooooooooo much i got it running now  =)

[langtuh3t]

Wow, That is great video. I was able to follow the command and made it work on my network. Thank you so much for sharing.

[MrKlnyc]

Ahhh very cool.. I was looking all over the net. But most of them was unclear.. So, I Youtube it and found you :D Work PERFECT.....SuperDuper job my friend!!!

[danfive555]

awesome this works with win7 homegroup btw

[mansion10000]

Awesome tutorial :D

5/5

[Gine012]

I love you man...this is a great video you have done

keep it up

[RenegadeFury]

nevermind I fixied it with webmin

[Warkid1993]

you should totally tell me how you fixed it with webmin :D

@ technoblogical :

nice tutorial ^^

[technoblogical]

Log into Webmin, click on Servers, Samba Windows File Sharing, select it and delete the share.

Right above the delete button, you'll find "create a new File Share" but I don't see anything about creating new Samba users. Groups yes, but no users.

[RenegadeFury]

How do I sotp it fro maccessing my home directory? I mean I have my webroot folder the one I want shared and then the /home/administrator folder is shared, I don't want that. Any ideas?

[amzertech]

I posted a video response that I think will help beginners as it's all done using the GUI method.

[technoblogical]

Sure! It's a very nice video.

[raslaje]

Nice job. Well thought out and good speaking voice. I like when you were entering the windows group name in the Linux smb.conf file you switched to windows and showed how to get it. That's where I got stuck trying to follow some other video as I had never heard of a group name for windows and didn't know whether I had to create it or just find it.

[periali1]

nice tutorial thx a lot my friend

[utbuser13]

At last, someone who knows how to explain to others so they can understand what they are doing. Thank you so much!

[BiohaZd5]

Brilliant video, nice and clear and concise !!!!

[technoblogical]

Are you talking about letting the computer to write to a network share or are you talking about two operating systems on the same computer?