ubuntu-ca Digest, Vol 20, Issue 27

[Yang Lin]

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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Sharing a Folder (David Harsch)
>    2. Re: Sharing a Folder (Andrew Hunter)
>    3. Re: Error #70240+ (Corey Burger)
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> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:22:52 -0500
> From: David Harsch <dharsch at kwic.com>
> Subject: Sharing a Folder
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> Can anyone help me with setting Ubuntu  to share a folder.
> Seems like a simple thing but I can't seem to get it to work.
> I have shared the folder, I can see the Ubuntu computer from my windows 
> computer but when I try to access the Ubuntu computer using my windows 
> computer it asks for user name and password.
> In Ubuntu I set up a user called "guest" with password of "guest".
> I can't seem to get pass the user name password stage on the windows 
> machine.
>
> I have not been able to find anything to help me on this so far.
>
> Can someone give me a step by step setup process.  I do this at work all 
> the time on windows machines but I can't seem to get it set up between 
> windows and Ubuntu.  Must be simple but I can't seem to figure it out.
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> Thanks
> David Harsch
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>   
Strongly suggest you install a webmin, use webmin to set samba
http://www.webmin.com/
just download deb package is ok.