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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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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

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