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Access usb drives on network

Asked by William Pritchard

I am using ubuntu 10,04 and cannot open usb disk or expansion drive from my network. I can open these drives normally from the machine connected to them. Permission is denied from the network and I cannot find a way to alter the permissions. An epson SX125 all in one usb printer works from ubuntu machines connected to it and from the network but a windows XP machine cannot find the printer. Please advise. William

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Do you have samba installed? Does the system show in network places?

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William Pritchard (wdnp2) said : 		#2

Hi Actionparsnip,
Yes usb files  show in Network places, on the XP machine and on the ubuntu machines. Yes I think samba is installed but not a graphical interface program which shows when I search the list.
William.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

You can use nautilus to share them or you can manually edit /etc/samba/smb.conf

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William Pritchard (wdnp2) said : 		#4

Hi Actionparsnip,
Sorry I am new to this.How do I use Nautilus or edit those files?
Please advise,
William

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Right click folders, like you would in windows. Sharing is there

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William Pritchard (wdnp2) said : 		#6

Hi Actionparsnip,
Right click on the folders in usb disks has already been done.The dialogue box is properly completed  Sharing is OK however  for other files in documents, downloads etc
William

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William Pritchard (wdnp2) said : 		#7

Hi Actionparsnip,
I have solved this using a samba GUI (system-config-samba) but not without difficulty. Editing the smb.conf file was too risky as I have little experience of the syntax rules. I can now access selected files on the network and selected files on a usb disk and expansion drive from a windows XP machine and Ubuntu machines. I can also now print from a windows machine on the network. Authentification of the download of the Samba GUI on one machine on the network was not able to be authenticated from the Ubuntu list (untrusted source), which I found was a bug described on launchpad.I successfully installed from the terminal as advised. Downloading the Samba GUI on other machines went without a hitch as I did not run into the bug again. Access to files was ticked as  'everyone' but access to the usb devices had to be a single user name otherwise access was denied.
Many thanks for your help,
William

--- On Thu, 8/9/11, actionparsnip <email address hidden> wrote:

From: actionparsnip <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #170483]: Access usb drives on network
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, 8 September, 2011, 12:10

Your question #170483 on samba in Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+question/170483

    Status: Open => Answered

actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
You can use nautilus to share them or you can manually edit
/etc/samba/smb.conf

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#8

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