[ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[Simon Greenwood]

On 3 March 2011 21:17, John MM <scoundrel50a at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 03/03/11 19:57, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>
>>
>  No, that's OK at the moment. /var/lib/samba/usershares should contain
> files with the names of shares on your machine. These files should be owned
> by you. If they aren't, from terminal, type 'sudo chown
> <username>:<username> /var/lib/usershares/<sharename>'.
>
>  You should have something like this:
> ls -l /var/lib/samba
> drwxrwx--T  2 root sambashare  4096 2011-02-09 20:30 usershares
> ls -l /var/lib/samba/usershares
> -rw-r--r-- 1 simong simong 78 2011-02-09 20:30 music
>
>  s/
>
>
> Well, got rid of the error 255, but still cant see the directories from the
> other computer, so something is still stopping the network.
>
>
Check that you can ping either computer each way, that SMB sharing is set up
on your netbook - it isn't installed by default as Gordon has pointed out,
and you'll have to search for Samba in the Software Centre.

s/


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