How to share my drives with windows user

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i have samba installed thanx to LaunchPad now i want to share my drives with windows user on LAN

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
#1

Use the Places menu...
select a folder then right click and select "Sharing options"

Hth

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frozenflames (oracleandoracle) said :
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i want to share the whole drive like F: drive E: drive not folders and also there are no share options when i right click on folders ??

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frozenflames (oracleandoracle) said :
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this is the error i get when i right click and try to share the folder.

net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot share path /media/Movies/utorent down as we are restricted to only sharing directories we own.
Ask the administrator to add the line "usershare owner only = false"
to the [global] section of the smb.conf to allow this.

but i want to share the whole dirve is that possible?

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frozenflames (oracleandoracle) said :
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net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot share path /media/Movies/utorent down as we are restricted to only sharing directories we own.
if do add usershare like it said below
Ask the administrator to add the line "usershare owner only = false"
to the [global] section of the smb.conf to allow this.

but now i get this error

'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name "Everyone" to a SID. Invalid parameter.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
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On a desktop please press ALT+F2 then type gksudo nautilus then try to share your /media/...

Hth

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frozenflames (oracleandoracle) said :
#6

thank you that worked