#1 2016-05-22 06:14:08

Kino

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From: Stockport, UK

Registered: 2016-04-30

Posts: 109

Problem setting up shared folders [Solved - sort of]

I have always had problems with this but this time I have not been able to resolve the issues in trying to share folders over a home network.
My previous installation was #! waldorf and though it took some figuring out I was able to share folders and I wrote down a set of instructions.
I have now installed BL and using the same instructions cannot share any folders though the external drives show up in the file manager.
Basically, I have created mount points for the external drives, installed samba, edited the smb.conf file (actually same one used under #!) and set user & password. Result - nothing!

After half a day tearing out what little hair I have left could anybody shed any light on what needs to be done?

p.s. samba did once have system-config-samba gui which worked like a charm but doesn't seem to be available anymore. There seem to be alternatives but at the moment I can't get my head around them...

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by Kino (2016-05-22 12:36:22)

ohnonot

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: Problem setting up shared folders [Solved - sort of]

would you care to shed more light on what you did?
you say "samba" but not much more...

fwiw, i use sshfs, and am very satisfied with it. but all my machines run linux.

Kino

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From: Stockport, UK

Registered: 2016-04-30

Posts: 109

Re: Problem setting up shared folders [Solved - sort of]

Basically, the instructions I followed: set up samba

I do now have one of my external drives showing up but not the others and I'm not sure what I did but I suspect it has to do with setting the correct permissions.

UPDATE:
This is getting crazy.
I can now access shared folders from 1 laptop running windows7 but not a second laptop running windows7.
I can access shared folders on a laptop running ubuntu.
I can't access shared folders on a laptop running Bunsenlabs.

Last edited by Kino (2016-05-22 11:57:07)

Kino

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From: Stockport, UK

Registered: 2016-04-30

Posts: 109

Re: Problem setting up shared folders [Solved - sort of]

OK - solved at last.

It turns out I had to state explicitly in smb.conf exactly who the user is - even though I was using an smb.conf file from a #! installation which worked perfectly before.