Sharing files between Linux and Windows

[John G Heim]

It looks right to me assuming your user name is lshare. Surely, you 
don't usually log in as lshare, do you? You can create a user just for 
sharing files but you are going to run into a lot of permissions 
problems. It would be better just to use the user name you usually log 
in as.
In fact, I always use the same user name and password in both linux and 
Windows to make it easier to map a share in Windows.






On 07/07/2016 11:05 AM, John J. Boyer wrote:
> 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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