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Asked by aneesh

 When I try to share a folder named "my documents" from ubuntu (from normal user not root ) it is showing below error message.

' net usershare ' returned error 255: net usershare add :failed to add share my documents. Error was operation not
permitted. what are the reason for it how can i resolve it ?

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Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#1

Are you sure you have write access on the location (folder) you're trying to share the 'My Document' folder?

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aneesh (aneesholv) said : 		#2

yes I had gave the folder write access permission

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

If you mean 'My Documents' as in the Documents folder in your home folder you will need to run:

sudo apt-get install samba

You can then rerun nautilus and will be able to share folders using right click. If you are using ()or prefer cli config) you can use /etc/samba/smb.conf to define shares

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