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Windows XP on my desktop crashed and seeing as I couldn't find my restore disk I figured I'd take the opportunity to switch out to Ubuntu. I know there's a few Linux users here and hopefully one of you can explain how to set up file sharing between my Linux Box and my PCs. I've read several different posts about using Samba and have followed them to the T and still have not been able to get anything working. My Ubuntu machine is directly wired to my router and my PCs are wireless if that makes any difference. Thoughts?

What kind of errors are you getting? What have you tried? What's working/not?

BTW, Fedora is better. lol. j/k

First I assumed that the nifty thing in Places that says Network that has Windows Network in it would be what I needed to make this work. Unfortunately I was wrong. I get an error "Unable to mount location. Failed to retrieve share list from server."

Thats when I read up on Samba. I've tried to modify the workgroup name and IP's both through the Samba Server Configuring as well as manually through the terminal. Below what I've got so far. I have not been able to get it to recognize the PC's on the network nor have I gotten the PC's to see the Linux machine.

[global]
server string = Samba file and print server
workgroup = workgroup
security = user
hosts allow = 127. 192.168.255.
interfaces = 127.0.0.1/8 192.168.0.0/24
bind interfaces only = yes
remote announce = 192.168.2.255
remote browse sync = 192.168.2.255
printcap name = cups
cups options = raw
log file = /var/log/samba/samba.log
max log size = 1000
username level = 6
password level = 6
; encrypt passwords = yes
unix password sync = yes
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
local master = no
domain master = no
os level = 33
logon drive = m:
logon home = \\%L\homes\%u
logon path = \\%L\profiles\%u
logon script = %G.bat
name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast
dns proxy = no
preserve case = no
client use spnego = no
client signing = yes
client schannel = yes
server signing = yes
server schannel = yes
; allow trusted domains = yes
obey pam restrictions = yes
enable spoolss = yes
follow symlinks = no
update encrypted = yes
passwd chat timeout = 120
hostname lookups = yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd '%u'
passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *ReType*new*password* %n\n *passwd*changed*\n
add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -c 'Samba User Account' -s /dev/null '%u'
add user to group script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -c 'Samba User Account' -s /dev/null -g '%g' '%u'
add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd '%g'
delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel '%u'
delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/userdel '%u' '%g'
delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel '%g'
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g sambamachines -c 'Samba Machine Account' -s /dev/null -M '%u'
machine password timeout = 120
idmap uid = 16777216-33554431
idmap gid = 16777216-33554431
template shell = /dev/null
; winbind use default domain = yes
winbind separator = @
winbind cache time = 360
winbind trusted domains only = yes
winbind nested groups = no
winbind nss info = no
; guest ok = yes
; guest account = nobody
; guest ok = no
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
path = /home
read only = no
; available = yes
; browseable = yes
; guest ok = no
; printable = no
share modes = no
locking = no

[netlogon]
comment = Network Logon Service
path = /srv/samba/netlogon
read only = no
; available = yes
; browseable = yes
; guest ok = yes
; printable = no
share modes = no
locking = no

[profiles]
comment = User Profiles
path = /var/samba/profiles
read only = no
; available = yes
; browseable = yes
; guest ok = no
; printable = no
locking = no
create mode = 0700
; directory mask = 0700

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
; browseable = yes
; writable = No
; guest ok = no
printable = yes
share modes = no
locking = no

[pdf-documents]
path = /home/pdf-documents
comment = Converted PDF Documents
; available = yes
; browseable = yes
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes

[pdf-printer]
path = /tmp
comment = PDF Printer Service
printable = yes
guest ok = yes
use client driver = yes
printing = bsd
print command = /usr/bin/gadmin-samba-pdf %s %u
lpq command =
lprm command =

[OneTouch 4]
path = /media/OneTouch 4
writeable = yes
; browseable = yes
guest ok = yes

I'm off to the strip to party, but here's a list of samba related links I've used in the past to help me configure stuff..

http://delicious.com/AdmiralBeotch/samba

Wow.. I was greatly over complicating it. Admiral thanks for the links. I got it to work by getting rid of all the "extras" and making sure to restart Samba after making changes. I didn't do that before so no matter what I did it probably wouldn't have worked. I'm having a hard time keeping the shares being visible on the network, but as long as I keep a shortcut to the share on my desktop I can go back to it even if it doesn't show as visible on the network.

haha cool! Glad you got it going. I know about the over thinking part. it happens.

Here's a little Linux sunshine I experienced today

http://julians-linux-news.blogspot.com/ ... -girl.html

That's just awesome.. Get them hooked early. Any suggestions for games on Linux that I can get the little girl (4 year old) into?

not so much on the games. there's some drawing/paint type stuff that jas used to play. But now I just direct her to stuff like armorgames.com (flash) for games.

Just enable everyday stuff to encourage sitting in front of it. for instance, install VLC and let her watch her DVD movies on the computer. Let her stream her cartoons instead of sitting in front of the tv.

I've got an almost 4 year old girl. She loves Potato Guy (aka KTuberling). It's a KDE game but if you're willing to also install all the qt stuff, you can run it on Ubuntu/Gnome.