HOWTO: Samba foldersharing in Dolphin or Nautilus the smooth way

Latest revision as of 17:38, 16 November 2012

1. make shure you have installed samba, kdenetwork-filesharing (for KDE SC) or nautilus-share (for Gnome)

2. open a terminal and become su

3. add a group called sambashare by running

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4. add your user to the group sambashare Unknown extension tag "syntaxhighlight"

5. run these three commands:

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4. add these at the end of the [Global] section in /etc/samba/smb.conf

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5. make sure all entries in

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6. For sharing folders in you home folder, make sure that the homefolder of the user is readable to others, otherwise samba can't make the folders there accessable.

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8. And as some people will experience that after reboot the nmbd is not started and the shares are not shown you can add to the

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and if you still get problems using this you could try it with the sleep command to enshure that nmbd really can open a socketand if you still get problems using this you could try it with the sleep command to enshure that nmbd really can open a socket

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this lets the system wait for 20 seconds and then does the restart of the samba service. You should find out what is the best time youself, for me the 20 seconds are good working.

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to

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10. finally reboot, now you can use the foldersharing by rightclicking within Dolphin or Nautilus

Perhaps this should be implemented in Sabayon as default, so the user experience gets more comfortable.

greetings

maulbongo