Samba – share folders from Ubuntu to Windows and mobile

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• You're a lifesaver bro!!!!

• Command not found error!!
  "In sudo smbpassword -a sambauser "
  What should i do.. ??
  Plzz tell me

• All I get is time out errors 🙁

• Excellent!!!! Thanks!!!

• Caraca, irmão… Passei o dia inteiro me batendo com essa bagaça, e em 8 minutos tu fez o que eu precisava… Obrigado! ✌️

• chmod 777 shared_folder gives me a message "cannot access, no such file or directory. Is this because im trying to share a folder on an external drive?

• Its works on web or only for local network??

• Very great and very nice. That is really what I want, thank your sharing.

• why is not working in ubuntu server 22.04?

• not open in windows 10 "windows cannot access "?

• I have a ubuntu server 18.04 , file sharing is already enabled , but everyone can see others file kept in central server i want to make a centralised share folder where students can save their file in server with id password. Is this possible , pls suggest Thank you

• Hey man you made my day. You deserve my subscription for helping to show me setting up SAMBA server. Cheers

• Thank you! It worked perfectly!

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  fffffffffffffffffffff what the hell!?!!!

• thanks for this.

• hello. ubuntu 18/20: testparm gives "max connections = 0" value but I set the max connections in the smb.conf for 5. I cannot connect because I get error message that I exceeded the allowable connections. I cannot change this max connection value given by testparm no matter what I do with smb.conf. On slackware this is not issue only on ubuntu.what can be problem? thanks

• Hi, I followed the steps.. It didn't work for me. Even then I took the steps to add a user and windows did ask me for login credentials, but it still did not work. At both times I got the following error message, "Windows cannot acces \192.168.x.xguest"

• Hii can you help eme out I can see the folder but cant access it, I want to share my storage hard drive that is mounted

• I've been able to share a folder on the home directory with no problems. I got an additional hard drive and did all the steps 1 to 1 to share a folder on the new drive but my windows machine can't access that folder. I'm really not sure what the problem is. By the way, the original folder I shared is still accessible from my windows machine, it's just the new folder that isn't

• Thank you for this very helpful tutorial!

• thanks, man!

• worked perfectly! thank you!

• Worked perfectly!

• Where is link of that website ?

• Thank a lot👍👍

• Hey man, my friends and I tried to config this for 3 hours and you just save our lives. Thanks! 😀

• do we have to install the samba in windows? it says windows cannot access the ip i wrote

• Very useful. Thank you.

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