Sharing a Folder in Ubuntu for Other computers to see

Caleb Metheny calebme at gmail.com
Sat Aug 13 19:02:27 UTC 2005


That guide you gave me on how to set-up network users. Is that so
another computer with winxp could basically log-in through explorer?

Because when I view workgroup computers and try to access the one
running Ubuntu it will ask me for a username and password.

On 8/13/05, William Chapman <jeddahbill at gmail.com> wrote:
> Caleb,
> 
> I also have a small network with windows and linux boxes on the same
> workgroup.  My windows machines (some are dual-boot and can be brought
> up in either os) can see samba-shared folders on the linux boxes.
> 
> Your problem could relate to samba not recognizing the user name on
> the windows machine(s) attempting to browse the samba shares.  Do you
> use identical user names on the windows and linux machines?  Either
> way, you may have to "register" the windows user name(s) with samba
> like so:
> 
> http://ubuntuguide.org/#addeditdeletenetworkusers
> 
> Even though I use the same user name on several machines, and still
> had to do this to enable browsing across all machines on the network.
> 
> Also, I don't know that much about samba, but you can probably
> configure it to be "wide open" to any user attempting to browse.
> 
> Anyway, I'm sure there are many samba experts out there who can give a
> more authoritative answer than mine.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Bill
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