Linux - Windows communication
I have installed and set up a Samba server on my Linux (Ubuntu) using this simple tutorial ...
https://help.ubuntu.com/11.04/server...ileserver.html The config looks like this ... [share] comment = Ubuntu File Server Share path = /srv/samba/share browsable = yes guest ok = yes read only = no create mask = 0755 restart ... sudo restart smbd sudo restart nmbd I cannot however see /srv/samba/share from the windows machine using win explorer. What might I be doing wrong ? As I understand it Samba enables windows clients to connect to Linux servers running a Samba server ... How can a Linux client connect to another windows machine within the same LAN ? regards, Steven M |
Try windows explorer to connect you server directly (not browsing) e.g. type into the adderss \\my-server-ip\share
If that works, check workgroup settings and wins, windows uses that to detect network shares. If it doesn't work, check if firewall enables samba. Linux can connect windows shares (samba) over samba protocol. Use smb* commands for CLI communication or mount samba share as a local path. That depends on your system, most common cases are: mkdir /mnt/share mount -t cifs windows-pc-or-ip/share -o username=vivek,password=myPassword /mnt/share or mount -t smbfs windows-pc-or-ip/share -o username=vivek,password=myPassword /mnt/share or use GVFS, so when you are running linux desktop (GNOME or other), find 'Connect computer' or something so in the menu. |
How does your smb.conf look in the global part (see example below):
[global] workgroup = WORKGROUP netbios name = servername netbios aliases = SERVERNAME server string = Samba Server 1 log level = 1 max log size = 50 max xmit = 65535 time server = Yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes wins support = Yes socket address = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx usershare max shares = 100 usershare allow guests = No security = user encrypt passwords = true passdb backend = smbpasswd:/etc/samba/smbpasswd map to guest = bad user username map = /etc/samba/smbusers strict locking = no |
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