Sharing files between Windows & Ubuntu

**HiImTye** · May 14th, 2014

windows 7 disables SMB with servers who use keys of lesser strength. you need to enable the use of lesser strength keys.

**dragonfly41** · May 31st, 2014

My suggestion is to try opening a free account (up to 2GB) with spideroak. Then create a shared room.

https://spideroak.com/

**SuperFreak** · May 31st, 2014

Originally Posted by Shadius

So I installed SAMBA on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine and it works great with my Windows Vista laptop. I can share files between both computers.

I tried setting SAMBA up on Ubuntu 14.04 to be able to share files over the network that is mostly Windows 7, but it doesn't work. It keeps asking me for a password to the workgroup. Help please!

It should give the option of "remember password forever" or something like that when you enter your password

**Shadius** · May 31st, 2014

But there is no password for the workgroup.

**SuperFreak** · May 31st, 2014

I am sorry if this not a very definite response, but try either your host computer's password, your client's password or your SAMBA password. I am not sure which it is but one will work. You did configure SAMBA and set up a password right?

**Morbius1** · May 31st, 2014

I really do try to keep out the samba part of this forum these days but .....

It's not clear from your posts who's doing what to who.

I tried setting SAMBA up on Ubuntu 14.04 to be able to share files over the network that is mostly Windows 7, but it doesn't work. It keeps asking me for a password to the workgroup.

You install the samba package to create a Samba server on the Linux box to share files to others on the lan. Has nothing to do with accessing some other machines shares. That subset of the samba suite is installed by default in Ubuntu. So who is getting the request for a password? The Windows machine when you access the Linux box? Or the Linux box when you access the Windows machine?

Oh and btw, does samba/smb itself work? Not this browsing stuff but samba itself:

From the Windows box open Run and see if you can access the linux samba server by ip address. For example:

Code:

\\192.168.0.100

From the Linux box access the Windows machine by ip address:

Code:

nautilus smb://192.168.0.101

If Windows won't display it's shares it's likely because it has no idea who the hell your are. So pass a user name - not just any user name but one that exists on the Windows box - when you do the command. Something like this:

Code:

nautilus smb://morbius@192.168.0.101

Where morbius is an actual login user on the Windows box.

**jdeca57** · May 31st, 2014

Perhaps less obvious in setup, but very platform independent since it uses https is Owncloud. I use an Owncloud server and accessing it from Windows is either like Dropbox or via a browser. It's platform independent and Mac or Android is supported. And one avoids a proprietary and legacy protocol. Ok, it's a bit more work to get it started - mysql, apache, https - but once that's done it has a lot of advantages. (One of them being that that the password is clearly defined)

**Morbius1** · May 31st, 2014

Can't say enough good things about a good old fashion http server especially for large file transfers which choke just about every other protocol.

Never used OwnCloud but I use a temporary http server often by invoking the python module so there's no configuration and then copy stuff via a browser on the client. Easy peasy.