Hello I am new to Linux Ubuntu, I have a spare PC laying around and I wanted to make it a file/media sharing server.
I cannot even figure out how to get Ubuntu to see my windows 8 pc nor can I get my windows 8 to see my ubuntu. I need step by step instructions on how to set everything up.
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Look up SAMBA and CIFS, e.g. thatsquality.com/articles/…– John1024Dec 20, 2013 at 6:22
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You need to have both machine in same network and shared folder on windows8 machine.
here’s what you need to run:
apt-get install samba4
to get the latest version of Samba.
apt-get install cifs-utils
to get necessary files/utils required to mount Windows shares.
Then do the following:
mkdir /mnt/share
Type the following command to mount the share:
mount -t cifs //windowsmachineip/sharename -o username=user,password=urPassword /mnt/share
On older machines the shares could be mounted as follows:
mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=urPassword //windowsmachineip/sharename /mnt/share