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I am pretty sure that on your linux machine, all you have to do is
this: sudo apt-get install samba sudo smbpasswd -a <username> That's all I did on a fresh debian jessie machine and I was able to access my files in Win7. In Win7, press control+r to open a run dialog box. Type \\<hostname>\<username>. That will open a dialog box for mapping a share. If you make your linux user ID and password match your Win7 user ID and password, you don't even have to enter those things. If they don't match, there is a link titled something like "Log in with a different user name and password". Sorry, I'd have to reboot into Win7 again to get the exact title of the link. But seriously, those 2 commands were all I had to do to access my files from my Win7 machine. If you want to modify the files on your linux machine, you have to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf on the linux machine. But for copying the files to your Win7 machine, I really think that is all you have to do. On 07/06/2016 01:39 PM, John J. Boyer wrote: I tried to install a samba server on Windows. However, the Geek Squad agent who was helping said he didn't know enough to proceed. If I go to the Samba website, what should I do? Thanks, John On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 01:22:27PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:Ditto. I've also only every used Samba for this. Note, however, that once you have Samba set up, you can perfectly access the Windows folder from the Linux command line. Look at the man pages for the following: smbclient smbget Good luck! Janina John G Heim writes:I have always done this with samba. I never found it particularly difficult. You do have to read/follow the instructions. On 07/05/2016 01:36 PM, Mark Peveto wrote:I'll be interested in the answer to that question myself. I've had some tell me I need to use samba to do that...I've never been able to make it work. Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Sent from F123 Visual using alpine 2.20.13 On Tue, 5 Jul 2016, John J. Boyer wrote:I'm going to set up a folder called c:\share on my Windows machine. I want to set up a device on my Linux machine which is connected with this folder over my LAN. I know that this can be done, because I had something similar at one time. However, i'm not certain how to do it again. If I remember, it just took an entry in fstab and an entry in /dev. Thanks. John -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. Email: john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org Status: 501(C)(3) Nonprofit Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA Mission: To develop softwares and provide STEM services for people with disabilities which are available at no cost. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list_______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list-- -- John G. Heim; jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; sip://jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list-- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list |
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