Sharing files between Linux and Windows

[John G. Heim]

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
>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> John J. Boyer; President,
>>>>> AbilitiesSoft, Inc.
>>>>> Email: john.boyer at abilitiessoft.org
>>>>> Website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org
>>>>> Status: 501(C)(3) Nonprofit
>>>>> Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA
>>>>> Mission: To develop softwares and provide STEM services for people with
>>>>>            disabilities which are available at no cost.
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Blinux-list mailing list
>>>>> Blinux-list at redhat.com
>>>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
>>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Blinux-list mailing list
>>>> Blinux-list at redhat.com
>>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
>>> -- 
>>> --
>>> John G. Heim; jheim at math.wisc.edu; sip://jheim@sip.linphone.org
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Blinux-list mailing list
>>> Blinux-list at redhat.com
>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
>> -- 
>>
>> Janina Sajka,	Phone:	+1.443.300.2200
>> 			sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net
>> 		Email:	janina at rednote.net
>>
>> Linux Foundation Fellow
>> Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org
>>
>> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
>> Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Blinux-list mailing list
>> Blinux-list at redhat.com
>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/blinux-list/attachments/20160706/c8ceb4ea/attachment.htm>