<div dir="ltr">Gee, I do not use samba, and I think it is weird to use it with Android, since Android is Linux, technicaly you could use NFS, that is standard on Linux OS. What software do you use to navigate? Did you try to use this file sharing from another computer?<div><br></div><div>According to this thread (<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1214880">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1214880</a>)<b> </b><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b>/usr/share/samba/smb.conf</b> is a backup copy. So, you should setup only the <b>/etc/samba/smb.conf</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b><br></b></span></div><div>I guess there are some other configurations to do. Look at this manual (<a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/samba-fileserver.html">https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/samba-fileserver.html</a>), specially the step 3.</div><div><br></div><div>sudo mkdir -p /srv/samba/share</div><div>sudo chown nobody:nogroup /srv/samba/share/<div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-11-20 6:32 GMT-02:00 Marlon Ng <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guikaye@gmail.com" target="_blank">guikaye@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hey guys, I reinstalled my Lubuntu 14.04. Everything's working except samba. I used to be able to share a folder in my Lubuntu system with my android phone.<div><br></div><div>I installed cifs-utils thru Synaptic. I got these two folders:</div><div><br></div><div>/etc/samba</div><div>/usr/share/samba<br></div><div><br></div><div>Both folders contain the file smb.conf</div><div><br></div><div>Is this normal? If I'm going to edit smb.conf, do I edit both of them? Because that's what I did.</div><div><br></div><div>I created a folder in desktop called 'temp', then I added the following in the two smb.conf files:</div><div><br></div><div><div>[temp]</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>comment = temp</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>path = /home/user/Desktop/temp</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>browseable = yes</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>guest ok = yes</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>writeable = yes</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>create mask = 0755</div></div><div><br></div><div>I used to be able to see the contents of "temp" in my Android phone, provided both my Lubuntu computer and my Android phone are connected to the same wifi network.</div><div><br></div><div>Now I can't anymore. I also don't remember having to edit two smb.conf files. It was just one.</div><div><br></div><div>Your help is highly appreciated. Thank you.</div><div><br></div><div>Kaye</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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