Ubuntu/XP Network Shared Folder
I rebuilt all my computers this week and I managed to combine all my old hardware to make another computer. Instead of running FreeBSD again, I decided to run Ubuntu. I have it all setup now: I use UltraVNC (from my XP machines) to get into it, it can detect all my shared folders on the two XP machines. The problem I am having is I can't figure out how to create a shared folder on Ubuntu.
This is what I have tried to do
Right click on a folder I made on the desktop (called untitled folder) and click "share folder". Then I type in my password. And a little box comes up and says
Shared folder
Path: /home/matt/Desktop/untitled
Share with: [two options] Do not share, SMB
I select SMB and fill in the Share properties and click ok.
When I view my workgroup computers on XP, I see Ham (XP), Bacon (XP) and Beef (ubuntu). But when I double click on Beef I get a password box and I type in my ubuntu login information but it won't work.
I'd like to disable the password thing, and get a file to be shared on Ubuntu. I tried searching Google for a solution, but I can't find anything that helps very much.
I'm familiar with the command line so if I have to use it it's ok.
teammatt3 posted this at 01:27 — 7th January 2007.
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I figured out how to do it. Here is the page that I found that helped me out. You have to type
and then the steps I did above will work.
JeevesBond posted this at 10:34 — 7th January 2007.
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Wish I'd seen this, could have saved you some time as had exactly the same problem a few months ago.
The Ubuntu forums are very good (content-wise). Naturally the best way to manage a group of computers is to create a proper domain: LDAP really blew my mind though, will give it another try sometime. If you work it out first Matt: let me know.
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Renegade posted this at 11:09 — 1st April 2007.
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To bring up an old thread... teammatt3, when you did this on your network, did you end up sharing your entire home folder as well? Because I did, how did you get it so only the shared folder is shown and now your entire home folder?
teammatt3 posted this at 15:03 — 1st April 2007.
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Yeah it did. But the second time around when I did it, it didn't. I think it was because of the thing I put in bold down in the list.
Head back over to windows, and in windows explorer go to \\Beef\Shared where beef is the comp's name, and Shared is the name of the shared folder you specified in samba. If you get prompted for username and password enter it in, and you should see the shared contents, without the the home directory available. How's that work for you Renegade?
Renegade posted this at 02:55 — 4th April 2007.
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Still getting the same thing, here's exactly what I did:
1, removed my samba account - "sudo smbpasswd -x "
2, removed my shared folder entry in samba panel
3, "sudo smbpasswd -a "
4, added my shared folder by clicking into the folder
teammatt3 posted this at 05:50 — 4th April 2007.
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lol, I went through your steps and it worked fine. No home directory listing, just the shared folder. Take a look at /etc/samba/smb.conf. Line ~215, the "[homes]", "comment = Home Directories", "browseable = no" should all be commented out. Are they?
Oh, I forgot, don't forget to restart smb when you're done. /etc/init.d/samba restart
Renegade posted this at 12:29 — 5th April 2007.
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Oh yip, that works perfectly for me now
Thanks 
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