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right clicking folders in home does not show 'share'

Asked by Inday Matthews

I have two Unix machines using 10-04 Desktop connected with a wired hub to each other and the Internet. The laptop can share with the desktop by clicking on its icon under networks; the desktop can only see the $print icon on the laptop. On the desktop under System>Preferences>Personal File Sharing, I'm told I cannot enable sharing because required packages are not installed. I went to the Nautilus File Browser and right clicked on the 'Public' folder but it does NOT show 'sharing options'. I then decided to install SAMBA but again I cannot share any folder or file on the desktop. How can I activate the 'sharing option' in Nautilus? I have searched for several days and have not seen this problem discussed anywhere I could think of to look. I am not experienced using $sudo but am willing to try since I figure I can always reinstall 10-04 if all else fails. Thank you in advance for any help. Inday

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Inday Matthews (indaymatt67) said : 		#1

Ooops my mistake. The laptop can only see $print on the desktop but the desktop can see all the shared files on the laptop.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

sudo apt-get install samba; gksudo nautilus

Should do it

You can easily define shares in /etc/samba/smb.conf

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Roy F. Matthews (matthews-royf) said : 		#3

Thank you for the answer Sir Actionparsnip. I now have something more to work on. The desktop now not only sees but can actually retrieve files from the laptop. The laptop still cannot see files on the desktop but I have not tried to set passwords in /etc/samba/smb.conf. Appreciate your help but still wonder why right clicking the "public folder" does not reveal the sharing options. It may be a computer problem since it is an ASUS and I know there are some issues with Linux and ASUS there. As I say, I needto study more. Inday

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

You can set passwords for samba with:

sudo smbpasswd -a $USER

which will add a samba password for the user running the command, I suggest you set the password the same as the log in password.

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