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==WHY==

Because some of my colegues use Windows. One of them has a dir shared where the others put/get files to/from. I need to be able to access it too and share stuff for them to see in their "Network neighbourhood".

==Mounting a Windows Share==

Well, mounting windows shares is easy.

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sudo apt-get install smbfs
sudo mkdir /media/mountname
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add this line at the end of /etc/fstab ( to auto-mount it )

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//server_ip/share_name  /media/mountname  cifs  guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,codepage=unicode,unicode  0  0
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and then do this to mount it ( it'll be auto-mounted at every boot )

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sudo mount -a
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or do this to mount manually
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sudo mount //server_ip/share_name /media/mountname/ -t cifs -o guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,codepage=unicode,unicode
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==Sharing a dir==

We're gonna use samba.

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sudo apt-get install nautilus-share
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Then edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and search for [homes] . You should uncomment  ( the ; char ) it so it would look like this

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[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = yes
   read only = no 

#also check the [globals] section to be like this

[global]
        security = user
        encrypt passwords = true
        map to guest = bad user
        guest account = nobody
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Last step, reload samba and allow some users to auth.

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sudo  smbpasswd -a username
# username should be a real system user 
sudo /etc/init.d/samba reload
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==LINKS==

[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently Mounting Windows Shares Permanently]

[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba Setting Up Samba]

[[Category: Linux]]
[[Category: Windows]]
[[Category: Ubuntu]]