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Ron Piggott
Asked: 2016-05-05 06:45:46 +0800 CST

Configure Folder Sharing

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I am trying to share a folder in Ubuntu 16.04 so I can access it on a Windows XP machine. I am receiving this error message:

'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot share path /media/rpiggott/Users/Users/Ron Piggott/Documents/Wendy Bonter/Car Insurance Claim as we are restricted to only sharing directories we own.
Ask the administrator to add the line "usershare owner only = false" 
to the [global] section of the smb.conf to allow this.

I don't know where smb.conf lives. I opened up terminal and gave the command

sudo find ~/ -type f -name "smb.conf"

There are no results.

Other pertinent details:

  • I was prompted to install 'share' when I clicked on the 'share folder' tab. I did so. Then I rebooted.

Where is this file? Where I am to create it so I may follow the instruction?

sharing

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It lives in:

    /etc/samba/smb.conf

    You can edit it with:

    sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
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