Sharing files between Linux and Windows

[Janina Sajka]

John:

You install Samba on Linux, not Windows.

Samba provides support on Linux for Microsoft's networking protocols,
which are still netbios based, if I'm not mistaken. It's been a while
since I've delved into supporting Windows file systems.

Janina

John J. Boyer writes:
> 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
> > > > > 
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Janina Sajka,	Phone:	+1.443.300.2200
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		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