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tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

Posts: 1,017

How to share a folder to Windows computers on the same LAN

I am using KDE 3.5 and it has samba installed and running. I am in a house with two windows computers and can see the files on their shared folders with no problem. However, I would like to share a folder on my system so they can see it. Can anyone help me?

Bapman

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From: Ottawa, Canada

Registered: 2007-09-02

Posts: 140

Re: How to share a folder to Windows computers on the same LAN

I would suggest read this first !

If you want no password for your shared folders, you can replace :

security = user

by

security = share

in /etc/samba/smb.conf.

To restrict the access to your LAN, you should have something like this in smb.conf :

 hosts allow = 192.168.0.0 127.0.0.1

(replace 192.168.0.0 by your actual LAN IP)

They are also plenty of posts in this forum on this problem...

Last edited by Bapman (2008-05-08 02:49:16)