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May 7th, 2009 at 3:42 am
Wow.
That was a lot easier than I expected to be. I’ve been using Ubuntu for a LONG time so I thought I’d look at a walkthrough for setting up samba.
Walkthrougs are normally a hell of a lot longer. Damn, I really like the simplicity of setting this up.
It works like a charm, shares with my wife’s Vista box no problem.
–
Jason
Oh! One thing before I forget.
You have
sudo nano/etc/samba/smb.conf
It should be
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
(With the space between nano and the directory.)
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:21 am
excellent worked for me,my first sucessful trial of network on linux,thanx
June 9th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Great, short and it sure does the trick!
(Ubuntu 9.04)
Thanx!
October 12th, 2009 at 6:10 am
wow, that was easy.
networks with windows 7 like a charm