I have Samba installed, but, when I click on the icon, it asks for my password, I enter it, and then nothing happens. I can not configure, i.e. set up files to share. Any advice is appreciated.
Try start it from the terminal and see what comes out. also check: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/H...rminal) - Uncomplicated, Simple and Brief Way!
ThereĀ“s a list of samba gui here ou may find some of them in the app store: https://www.samba.org/samba/GUI/
Before using graphical interfaces, it makes sense to do a little test on the command-line start with the command smbtree ... don't give a username/passwd, just press enter do you see the share ? If not: is your firewall configured correctly ? after that: smbclient -U <username> //<server>/share Can you login, do you see files with dir or ls ? Try it graphically, if you are using Files, is gvfs-backends installed (it should be, it's installed by default)
And btw: i do prefer mounting samba shares without the graphical interface. First create a file like /etc/samba/credentials.txt put 2 lines in it: username=... password=.. After that, change the permissions on this file: chmod 400 /etc/samba/credentials.txt Now create a mountpoint: mkdir /mnt/share1 Create a file: /etc/systemd/system/mnt-share1.mount [Unit] Description = samba share data1 Requires = remote-fs.target [Mount] Where = /mnt/share1 What = //server/share Type = cifs Options = defaults, credentials=/etc/samba/credentials.txt [Install] WantedBy = default.target Note: the filename == sharename,, replacing / with a - After that: systemctl start mnt-share1.mount check: findmnt -D /mnt/share1 Enable at boot: systemctl enable mnt-share1.mount
Thanks for the feedback. I tried several sets of install instructions, but, the one that worked best (for me) is the following. http://entornosgnulinux.com/2015/06/14/samba-en-elementary-os-freya/ This involved the installation of Nautilus and it provided the option of installing a samba program. Are there any issues with Nautilus that I should be aware of? Negative issues, I mean. As an aside, the instructions are in Spanish, is there a way to get ASCII codes in Elementary Linux?