How to File Share in Ubuntu 10.04 Easily and using GUI's only

[WolfRage]

How to File Share in Ubuntu 10.04 Easily and using GUI's only.

Disclaimer: Sharing files in this way is not secure; so please make sure you only do this on a private network that has been properly secured. Otherwise any user on the network can access and modify your shared files; you have been warned!

1. "Applications" menu ->"Ubuntu Software Center" -> in the search box type "Samba" then install "Samba". (Because even though you enabled file share and tried to share the files 10.04 seems to not actually install "Samba". Plus this installs the "Samba" GUI.)
2. This step was removed to prevent confusion.
3. "System" menu -> "Administration" -> "Samba". Enter your password. In the GUI that opens up choose "Preferences" menu -> "Server Settings" then the "Security" tab change the authentication mode to share and the guest account to your user name account. This prevents permission problems later on.
4. Choose the "Add a Samba Share"; the green plus icon; browse to the directory you wish to share. Place a check mark in "Writable" and "Visible". Then on the "Access" tab choose "Allow access to everyone".
5. Press OK; now your should be able to see the share from the other computers just choose "Places" menu -> "Network" then either the computer name if it shows up or select "Windows Network" -> "WORKGROUP" -> Computer Name then the Shared folder.

2. Share the selected folder via natuilus, right-click on the folder and choose "Sharing Options" or "Properties" -> "Sharing" Tab. This may be an unnecessary step but at least we know Nautilus has applied the proper permissions for us; on the pop-up choose "Automatically Update Permissions".

I hope that this helps as many of you as possible. If anyone has any updates please let me know. I am glad to see that this can finally be done all using GUI's now but it still should be as simple as sharing the folder with the "Sharing Options" selection in Nautilus. There is still work to be done on this in Ubuntu.
I am going to jump on Launch Pad and look for all of the bugs that I can find related to these issues and see if I can contribute what I have learned and maybe I can try to organize some of the bugs to get a collective fix in the works. I will post back any updates.
Please If you used my method please note this is not the way it is supposed to be done in 10.04 so you are affected by the bug. Please go to this bug and be counted. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ba/+bug/592610

[Paddy Landau]

This didn't work for me, until I made a certain change to the Samba file in all of the computers.

If you have the same problem as I did, try the following.

1. Edit the Samba file. The easiest way is to press Alt-F2 and enter gksu gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
2. Scroll down to where you see the [global] section (probably at the end of the file).
3. Anywhere under there, add the following two lines:
   name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins
   os level = 33
4. Double-check that you've typed it right. Save. Reboot.

[matt-fender]

I ****ing love you, i will have your babies :d:d:d:d

[AfrikaDietmar]

Hello WolfRage,

Just installed Ubuntu 10.04, and with this tutorial plus the GUI it is really great and practical to setup a sharing folder. I did it step by step and it worked.

5. Press OK; now your should be able to see the share from the other computers just choose "Places" menu -> "Network" then either the computer name if it shows up or select "Windows Network" -> "WORKGROUP" -> Computer Name then the Shared folder.

I edited the smb.conf file with
sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

And inputed the name of the windows work group, it appears there.

Is there also a different way by using the GUI to set the name of the workgroup ?

Disclaimer: Sharing files in this way is not secure; so please make sure you only do this on a private network that has been properly secured. Otherwise any user on the network can access and modify your shared files; you have been warned!

1. I have a network, or in other words a simple workgroup with shared folders and I would like to make it as such, that for other users, when they want to access the shared folder, they need to input a password.

2. Then in that folder, i will have some folders that i would also like to protect or only give access to specific people with password protection, or make it accessible only to certain users. Any idea how todo this ?

[Paddy Landau]

Is there also a different way by using the GUI to set the name of the workgroup ?

System > Administration > Samba > Preferences > Server Settings > Basic > Workgroup.

[AfrikaDietmar]

Hi Paddy,

thanks!

When usind the GUI my ubuntu was crashing a lot.

I did the following in terminal:
got myself root status with: sudo su
and then rm -r /etc/samba
thought it would remove samba and then i can reinstall it from the software centre.

Well after that i had some more problems. Function apt -get install samba wasn't working.
I then tried again installation from the software centre, there i got some error messages because it was having some issues with the missing smb.conf, but the error message suggested a fix by copying it and give the exact line i had to input in terminal.
That somehow solved the problem and i was able to instal GUI and SMB/CIF file.

I did reboot and GUI is working and i managed to make it show a folder in the windows network.

But what is missing now is when i right click on a folder, there are no "Sharing Options"... Any idea how to make that reappear again ?

[d3v1150m471c]

nice tutorial. *bookmarks page*

[dvdragon]

Thank you so much. This really helped.