Re: [Dorset] Sharing files & directories in Mint 19.2 & 20.1
If you search for installing Samba on Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04 (bases for Mint 19.x and 20.x) you should find some good tutorials. Of course, you've probably fixed this by now I imagine. Hamish On 17/04/2021 10:14, Terry Coles wrote: Clive, I only just spotted this; it had somehow got marked as 'read' in my email client. On Wednesday, 14 April 2021 18:05:27 BST CA Wills wrote: Now have the new main PC (NUC B10) working, we are able to print to printers (Laser connected on PC by USB, Colour printer via the network (Router Ethernet) and all looks well from the PC. On the old PC we had Samba installed as that was very early on in my Linux days and Terry very kindly came over and installed it. It was a bit more complicate back then and I had to hand craft your smb.conf file to get it to work. Since then I've reinstalled Kubuntu on this machine several time and I can't remember the last time I had to tweak the config. For me, samba now 'just works. Of course I'm not using Mint. Tried to share my laptop 'Documents' folder so that I can get to the_laptop_ files from the new PC. On laptop notice comes up saying Samba is not installed. Also noticed I can't now print on the Laser even when the PC is 'ON'. With the old PC as long as it was 'ON' I could print OK. I'm not sure that I can help with this. As all our equipment is Linux do I need to have Samba to share equipment and files, or is there another Linux way? A long while ago someone said you only need Samba if you connect to Windows machines. It is true that you don't need Samba if you are only accessing Linux computers (which isn't quite what you said). Most NAS Boxes use smb by default (usually by running Samba on them, so although you may be able to enable NFS on yours you may find it easier to stick to Samba. Sorry I can't offer any real suggestions to solve your problem. OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-05-04 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
Re: [Dorset] Sharing files & directories in Mint 19.2 & 20.1
Clive, I only just spotted this; it had somehow got marked as 'read' in my email client. On Wednesday, 14 April 2021 18:05:27 BST CA Wills wrote: > Now have the new main PC (NUC B10) working, we are able to print to > printers (Laser connected on PC by USB, Colour printer via the network > (Router Ethernet) and all looks well from the PC. > On the old PC we had Samba installed as that was very early on in my > Linux days and Terry very kindly came over and installed it. It was a bit more complicate back then and I had to hand craft your smb.conf file to get it to work. Since then I've reinstalled Kubuntu on this machine several time and I can't remember the last time I had to tweak the config. For me, samba now 'just works. Of course I'm not using Mint. > Tried to share my laptop 'Documents' folder so that I can get to > the_laptop_ files from the new PC. On laptop notice comes up saying > Samba is not installed. > Also noticed I can't now print on the Laser even when the PC is 'ON'. > With the old PC as long as it was 'ON' I could print OK. I'm not sure that I can help with this. > As all our equipment is Linux do I need to have Samba to share equipment > and files, or is there another Linux way? A long while ago someone said > you only need Samba if you connect to Windows machines. It is true that you don't need Samba if you are only accessing Linux computers (which isn't quite what you said). Most NAS Boxes use smb by default (usually by running Samba on them, so although you may be able to enable NFS on yours you may find it easier to stick to Samba. Sorry I can't offer any real suggestions to solve your problem. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-05-04 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
[Dorset] Sharing files & directories in Mint 19.2 & 20.1
Hi all Now have the new main PC (NUC B10) working, we are able to print to printers (Laser connected on PC by USB, Colour printer via the network (Router Ethernet) and all looks well from the PC. On the old PC we had Samba installed as that was very early on in my Linux days and Terry very kindly came over and installed it. Tried to share my laptop 'Documents' folder so that I can get to the_laptop_ files from the new PC. On laptop notice comes up saying Samba is not installed. Also noticed I can't now print on the Laser even when the PC is 'ON'. With the old PC as long as it was 'ON' I could print OK. Laptop has the following files installed:- Sambs-libs, Samba-common, Samba-common-bin, smbclient, libsmbclient, libwbclient0, Python-samba & Nemo-share but _No_ Samba just smbclient etc. As all our equipment is Linux do I need to have Samba to share equipment and files, or is there another Linux way? A long while ago someone said you only need Samba if you connect to Windows machines. I'm guessing that some of the above files are from those times although Mint has been re-installed from scratch several times since then. The router also has the NAS drive connected via Ethernet so shows up on the network as well. If I have to have Samba I believe it's awkward to set up so I could be asking lots of questions!!! At this stage I'm asking the question so that I can decide if the trouble is worth it. -- -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-05-04 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
