Samba, file sharing

[Tee Jay Rosene]

>
> I am recently new to Ubunu.  I have been playing with it for a few
> months but have not had enough time to work with it enough to begin
> thinking about converting.
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> Right now my problem is that I can't seem to share a folder so that I
> can see it from my Windows computer.  Right now I want to start copying
> files over to Ubuntu machine from Windows so that I can start working in
> the Ubuntu platform with these files.  It is so simply in Windows to
> share a folder but I can't get it to work with Ubuntu.  I have the
> Ubuntu Unleashed book and have followed those instructions but I can't
> get it to work.  I have shared the folder within Ubuntu.  The Ubuntu
> machine shows up in Windows but it asks me to log in with user name and
> password but it does not accept the user name and password that Ubuntu
> is set up with.
>
>
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> Can someone give me an explanation of how to get Ubuntu to share a
> folder with Windows?
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> PS  Both machines are on the same network and DHCP server.  I assume
> that they are both getting IP addresses from the DHCP server.  How do I
> check what IP address the Ubuntu machine has?


Why don't you just get yourself a pretty hefty flashdrive? That's probably
much simpler than trying to go back and forth between Ubuntu and Windows.
Just plug it in in either OS and a way you go.

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