Comments on: Share Ubuntu Home Directories using Samba

By: Khaled

Khaled — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:01:55 +0000

Thanks the best and simplest tutorial I’ve ever seen.

By: cnemelka

cnemelka — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:10:43 +0000

You may want to check this carefully. On some distros, this setting allows the entire directory structure to be browsed……

By: mrzero

mrzero — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:46:09 +0000

Got me up and running. Now I can use the server while I learn about the other parameters. Thanks!!!!

By: Nishu

Nishu — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:41:26 +0000

how can i share folders that are not in my home directory???

By: Kim SJ

Kim SJ — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:26:21 +0000

Took me a while to notice that the “[homes]” line is commented out as well as the lines in that section. Maybe others will fall into that trap too… hope this helps.

By: Ulfang

Ulfang — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:58:22 +0000

Use:

smbclient //windows-machine/sharefolder

By: santiago

santiago — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:11:41 +0000

hello
but how do i access windows from linux

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:35:08 +0000

Under the section:

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = yes

add something like:

[MyShare]
path = /shared/MyFolder
browseable = yes

where /shared/MyFolder is a folder on your machine. You can also browse to any folder, right-click on it and select “share folder”. Then set “share through” to Windows Networks (SMB), set the name, comments & “read-only” flag. The entry will be created for you in the smb.conf file.

By: new fish

new fish — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:10:00 +0000

thank you. now I can share files on my desktop (Linux) with my laptop(WInXP)
but how do I share files in other location? (not only in home directory)

By: Cemao

Cemao — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:22:58 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial…
I had a strange problem. I just wanted to share a removable disk. It works perfectly when the [homes] section in smb.conf is enabled, but does not work when i comment it out.

Has anybody an idea how I can disable home sharing?

Thanks