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u123
Asked: 2015-12-09 13:08:07 +0800 CST

Cannot access shared folder on another Ubuntu machine

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I have ubuntu 15.10 installed on two PCs.

On PC A I have shared the /home folder (as a result samba + other were installed automatically).

From PC B I can see the folder but when I try to open it I just get this greyed out screen:

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Before getting that screen I did select Registered User and typed the user and password for the user I use to login to PC A.

How do I access the shared folder from PC B?

Is there some mandatory checklist that I need to go through to make this work, since it apparently is not something that works out of the box?

I made it work using this guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/How%20to%20Create%20a%20Network%20Share%20Via%20Samba%20Via%20CLI%20(Command-line%20interface/Linux%20Terminal)%20-%20Uncomplicated,%20Simple%20and%20Brief%20Way!

And connecting using this guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Samba/SambaClientGuide

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Do you configure correctly :

    1. adduser john
    2. addgroup users
    3. sudo chown -R john:users folder
    4. sudo chmod -R 0770 folder/
    5. sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

    And add following lines:

    [folder]
path = /home/samba/folder
valid users = john
guest ok = no
writable = yes
browseable = yes
security = user
    1. /etc/init.d/samba restart
    2. sudo usermod -a -G users john
    3. sudo smbpasswd -a john
    4. enter passwd:
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