Hi Tony,
I made a slight change to the 1st step, install
system-config-samba
Warning, this method is not for unsecured networks
I found this method here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1502265
Thanks to Wolfrage
1. Applications menu -Ubuntu Software Center - in the search box type
one of the missing steps is the installation of the GUI for samba...
shouldn't this show up as a dependency for the packages needed to share that
get installed within the process of that 1st right click some popped up
instructions?
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Shared folders (through Samba) when following instructions
my notebook had powered down
when I restarted I had an icon for the documents on my pc [the share I set up
above]?
but of course the other 2 computers are still awol
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Shared folders (through Samba) when following instructions sometimes does not
work correctly
I'll go through the whole thing from scratch, following instructions as I get
them from the GUI see where it gets me
I just walked into the other room sat down at an ol Pentium III pc that is
hooked to my printer. I added Mint9 [last week] to this PC, because it's
easier to use than 10.04
There are also some other related threads:
Paddy Landau's thread
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1491092
with a work around
Wolfrage's better solution:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1502265
A bug [please subscribe]:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/592610
When I try to do a simple share of documents folder get an error:
'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name
Everyone to a SID. The connection was refused. Maybe smbd is not running.
if I do a search of synaptic there is a samba4
which is described as an
