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I have a Windows network but I can't figure out how to share the files on my fedora server. Mac, Windows and Linux none of them can detect anything. I know I need Samba for Windows to be able to detect the network but even my linux laptop can't detect anything.
I don't know how to set folders as shared on linux. I thought there might be a default shared folder like Windows but there problem isn't. Also I set a shared folder on Mac OS X but Windows and Linux don't detect it for some reason.
On windows I tried typing Net View //MacComp in cmd.exe but it didn't detect a network. I pinged the mac comp and it responded though. Linux automatically detects the shared folders on the windows comp but not the mac. Any idea why it wont detect the Mac shared folder?
I have a wireless network with Windows, Mac, and Linux comps on it and I wanna be able to share files between all 3 OS's but the only thing I really care about at the moment is the Mac and Windows comps being able to read from my linux file server. Is there any software I have to install to allow all 3 OS's to share files over the wireless network?
I enabled SMB sharing on the MacBook now I can connect to the Mac shared folder by typing smb://192.168.1.5/ into my web browser in linux but it still doesn't show up as a normal browsable folder in Networks like the Windows comps shared folder does.
This is getting complicated. I'm trying to share a load of folders in my external harddrive thats hooked up to my Fedora box but samba only lets me share files in one predefined folder. I suppose I could just share the whole external harddrive contents in one folder.
Samba should let you share more than that. Remember, you can also just make one folder, share that, and then symlink the other folders in, if it comes to that.
Didn't know you could do that. I thought all the folders had to have shared status.
One last thing thats really pissing me off is trying to edit the NFS Exports file on the Fedora box. It keeps telling me I don't have permission even when I try to edit it through the shell as root. What the hell do I have to do to get permission to edit the Exports text file?
EDIT: Never mind I had to type su -c "gedit /etc/exports" in the terminal to gain root access to the exports file.
NFS isn't too good for security and also can't be read by non-UNIX OS's.
While I'm sure samba can handle more than one directory, if you can only share one for some reason, just make symlinks to the directories you want to share and drop them in the shared directory.
Yea Mac OS X can read SMB so Samba will work for that too but Mac OS X can actually mount NFS exports. Since I'm using Samba for the Windows comp anyway I'll stick to that. All that NFS export bullshit was a big hassle anyway.
I'm learning all sorts of cool shit at the moment by playing around with Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. Linux can interact perfectly with both OS's theres this feature of Mac OS X Leopard called "Share Screens" which allows remote control of the Mac comp and I found out theres a program you can install on linux that lets you remote control Macs with this feature. Its a VNC server so you just get a VNC client for Linux.
Its pretty cool but Id say its a security risk like Remote Desktop on Windows.
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