Sharing files between Linux and Windows

[Janina Sajka]

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
> > > 
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