On 3 March 2011 21:17, John MM <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/03/11 19:57, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > >> > No, that's OK at the moment. /var/lib/samba/usershares should contain > files with the names of shares on your machine. These files should be owned > by you. If they aren't, from terminal, type 'sudo chown > <username>:<username> /var/lib/usershares/<sharename>'. > > You should have something like this: > ls -l /var/lib/samba > drwxrwx--T 2 root sambashare 4096 2011-02-09 20:30 usershares > ls -l /var/lib/samba/usershares > -rw-r--r-- 1 simong simong 78 2011-02-09 20:30 music > > s/ > > > Well, got rid of the error 255, but still cant see the directories from the > other computer, so something is still stopping the network. > > Check that you can ping either computer each way, that SMB sharing is set up on your netbook - it isn't installed by default as Gordon has pointed out, and you'll have to search for Samba in the Software Centre.
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