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Setting up a samba share in Ubuntu 8.04 and above
By admin | November 30, 2008
After the “Network Shares” option was removed in Ubuntu 8.04, there was no longer a unified process to manipulate samba shares. Below is a step by step guide to setting up shares in Ubuntu 8.04 and above.
- Open Nautilus in root: Type gksudo nautilus in the terminal or Alt-F2 (run dialog). This is due to the fact that nautilus will not allow you to create shares without the root account.
- Navigate to the folder you want to share. Right click the folder and select Properties. Then click on the share tab.
- Check the checkbox that is labeled “Share this folder”. Type your share name in the “Share name” textbox. When you are done, click “Modify Share” to apply your settings.
- Close ‘root’ nautilus.
- The folder should now be shared. Check by going to Places => Network on your menu bar and typing in smb://localhost/ in the address bar.
- (Note) If you cannot get into your share even though you typed in correct username and password information, it may be that you have not set a samba password. Do this by typing smbpasswd in the terminal. Enter your Ubuntu login password when it asks for a password.
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Topics: Linux |