It looks right to me assuming your user name is lshare. Surely, you
don't usually log in as lshare, do you? You can create a user just for
sharing files but you are going to run into a lot of permissions
problems. It would be better just to use the user name you usually log
in as.
In fact, I always use the same user name and password in both linux and
Windows to make it easier to map a share in Windows.
On 07/07/2016 11:05 AM, John J. Boyer wrote:
Hi John,
When I enter as root
smbpasswd -a lshare
it asks for a password, but then it gives the message "Failed to add
entry for user lshare".
John
On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 07:11:54PM -0500, John G. Heim wrote:
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
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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
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