[wellylug] Re: SMB server set up in Ubuntu

[Andrew]

> Is the samba package installed on the machine?
>
> I'm using Kubuntu Breezy.
>
> When I right click on a folder, I can select 'properties'.  One of the 
> tabs is
> labelled 'sharing;.  It informs me I'm not set up for sharing, and 
> offers a
> button to let me set sharing up.
>
> If something else happens for you, tell us what.

No, no sharing tab. But he is sure samba is installed. The drive shows 
as 777.

> I have only ever set up a linux box to Samba share a directory so that
> it is accessible from Windows, so I have no idea how to solve your
> problem, sorry. However, if you simply want to share directories over
> a network, you could look into nfs
>
> http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/
>
> My desktop linux box automatically mounts my linux servers music
> directory, as if it was a local filesystem.
>
> I guess it depends on your needs (also, nfs might not be supported by
> Macs, i dont know).

I'll get him to try that. Is a nfs share accessible by smb?

Cheers
Andrew