Sharing files between Linux and Windows

[John J. Boyer]

Hi John,

When I enter as root

smbpasswd -a lshare

it asks for a password, but then it gives the message "Failed to add 
entry for user lshare".

John

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 07:11:54PM -0500, John G. Heim wrote:
> 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
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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.