Comments on: Ubuntu Guide For Windows Users: Enable File Sharing In Ubuntu Using Samba

By: dave

dave — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 02:42:04 +0000

fail. i installed samba and nothing works still. I installed samba4 and nothing worked still after that. I complete removed both, started back at samba, then samba4 again. It NEVER sees my windows shares. This is really sad.

By: Dileep R

Dileep R — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:18:34 +0000

Thank you very much for the info.
Really helped in sharing between ubuntu and windows.

By: kince

kince — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:33:43 +0000

i am using ubuntu 10.10…i can't find System \ Administration \ Shared Folders
what should i do pls help

Thnx in advance

By: Habib

Habib — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:26:58 +0000

Hello,

It didn't work for me, may be because I have installed Ubuntu in a virtual PC.
Some one can help?.

By: SagnaB

SagnaB — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:04:47 +0000

I have samba set up and working quite well, but I have several shared directories containing multiple directory trees, and for some reason the directories inside the shared one are not shared.
Is there a way do set them to shared automatically rather than having to go through and set share for each and every one?

By: Salik Mahmud

Salik Mahmud — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:28:44 +0000

I have a Good News to Add, Whenever I install SAMBA Services in my Laptop [Dell Inspiron 1564 with Broadcom 413 Series Wifi Internal Card) to Share Files with my Desktop the Laptop looses Wireless Network after a restart. The Wireless Network Goes Disabled even though the Driver is Active for Wifi Card. Nothing helps in getting it back until I remove all SAMBA Services and restart my Laptop. Both My Laptop and Desktop are running on Ubuntu 10.04 amd64 Version. Ubuntu is Competing very Well in Bugs' Race with Microsoft.
Everyday I wakeup a New Bug Hits My Computer Right in The Bed. I Call Them A Good Morning Bug (Can be Friendly Nick Name to that

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:53:35 +0000

Almost forgot, then choose Make Bookmark. You'll find the shared folder listed under Places.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:52:03 +0000

In ubuntu 9.10, Karmic; try PLACES, Connect to Server, choose SMB for you're service type, then put in the IP address for the shared folder. This worked great for my WD MY World Book network drive.
Hope this helps.

By: Spannerotoole

Spannerotoole — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:36:07 +0000

@Watching The Net:

Why even bother with a mac, that's just another case of headaches to open right there. There's the overpriced tag, the fact that OS X won't load 24bit audio samples instead it elects to crash because of a poor implementation in CoreAudio drivers. It's quite strange that Darwin BSD will allow it, why did apple go and break something that worked???

Apples current war with flash, if apple say that flash is buggy why don't they come up with a compatible alternative for their systems. It seems that they just steal stuff from others anyway.

Apple can go and eat my pips.

By: James O'Donnell

James O'Donnell — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:45:54 +0000

So easy to use!

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:41:27 +0000

In the following step this is not visible in my recent Ubuntu 8 install. There is no Shared Folders link under Administration.
- Open System \ Administration \ Shared Folders then click on General Properties tab and enter a name for Domain\Workgroup.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:54:23 +0000

@Nathan: System => Administration => Network, General tab

Also, ubuntu automatically installed nautilus-share when I installed samba. This utility lets you go to Places => Computer, browse to the folder containing the folder you want to share, right-click on the folder you want to share and choose Sharing Options from the menu that comes up. It was soooo much easier…

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:45:44 +0000

It says to go to System => Administration => Shared Folders but I see no such option.

By: charlie cheng

charlie cheng — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:20:35 +0000

when you want share home directory, you need to modify [homes] section to make :

browseable=yes
writable=yes //uncomment and change value
valid users=%s //uncomment

By: Watching The Net

Watching The Net — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:22:36 +0000

@Mossback 4ever

If you are that frustrated with Linux and Vista, there is always the Mac ; -)