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Trying to setup sharing of a file.
Click on 'properties, share'; ask for root password.
After entering correct root password, the next screen does not open.
Nothing happens.
When trying to set up 'sharing' for ANY file or folder in Mandriva 2007, after clicking on 'properties' for that file then 'share' the 'share' screen does not open.
I do not know if windoze or samba has anything to do with it. This method works in my other box which is an i586. The box with the sharing problem is an x64.
The x64 sys has several other problems regarding how software works with it and will be eliminated after transfering many gigs of data to a different box.
Rather than going through the GUI windows to set up sharing, maybe you could try one of these:
1. setup samba to share files/directories with other machines;
2. setup & export an NFS share that you can mount on your other machines;
3. use a remote copy/ftp program to transfer files (ie scp, sftp, rcp, rsync, ftp or more graphical clients like FileZilla, ...);
I'm not sure how to go about doing your suggestion.
Using Mandriva Control Center, Mount Points, Set Samba mount points, Search servers, the other boxes on the lan are there but not the x64. The same with NFS. The only way I know how to set them is the way I tried via 'Properties, Share' which doesn't work.
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