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Sharing internet connection via wifi
I am trying to share my internet connection via wifi on Kubuntu. In network manager I created a new shared connection, set an SSID and a password, left everything else untouched. It showed in a list ...
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Remotely control Ubuntu server from Ubuntu laptop over my phones wifi hotspot?
I need to be able to control my home Ubuntu server while im at work using my Ubuntu laptop over my phone's wifi hotspot. Speed isn't an issue, it's the same as my home DSL. Ive been using Chrome ...
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stop pam_mount from issueing forceuid and forcegid (samba)
I got a problem mounting a samba share with /etc/security/pam_mount.conf.xml.
Client OS: Ubuntu 12.10 x64
When I manually mount it access right information (user/group/other) are displayed correctly ...
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Permissions of mounted cifs share (Shared from FreeNAS)
I have a FreeNAS installation running under VirtualBox. When I try to mount one of my FreeNAS shares in Ubuntu 12.10, permissions on the share prevent me from entering the directory, listing or ...
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Peer To Peer (P2P) Sync and Share Ubuntu
I want to Share files across my network and on remote sites, So i am looking for p2p Sync/sharing application. Just like Ubuntu One & Drop box , but it does not have p2p protocol.I want p2p ...
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Accessing Plex and Transmission remotely
I have setup plex and transmission to be accessed through the webui. My question is how can I let friends access these features from an entirely separate location?
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How can I share NTFS drive between Ubuntu PC
I am just installing Ubuntu 12.04 in my office in two PC. Every PC have some NTFS formated drive. So I want to share them between these two PCs. Please help me regent if possible.
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How to Share DSL(PPPoE) Connection
How to Share DSL(PPPoE) Connection?
I'm Using Ubuntu 12.10 . I have a DSL internet connection (PPPoE). In our Local area network only one can be connected to the DSL connection at a same time. So I ...
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Auto-mount to windows share server
I'm trying to let Lubuntu auto-mount a Windows share server so I can explore it whenever. I know I can use Gigolo to auto-mount shares in the server, but I would like to mount the server itself (like ...
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Accessing share without defining host
I've created multiple Samba shares using "net usershare" and they work perfectly. The only question is that the user connecting to the share has to use one of the following two formats to log in ...
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Group Share Quota Related Issue
Good Day,
I want to share my experience regarding setting up Group Share Quota for my Domain Users in Samba 4. But before that, here is the basic information I have with my current setup:
Server: ...
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Can I share workspace in eclipse in dualbooting system?
I am dualbooting Windows 8 and Ubuntu (each os has it's own partition, third partition is shared). Can I use a same workspace for Windows and Ubuntu version of eclipse? I am not doing any serious ...
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Canon LBP2900B installation in 11.10
I need to install the Canon LBP2900B printers into my Ubuntu machines using 11.10 version. I have tried most of the queries online but could not able to find a solution for this issue. So could any ...
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Archive manager cannot find next rar volume on network drive on 13.04
While trying to extract segmented rar file from the network drive, archive manager getting "An error occurred while extracting files. Could not find the volume: archive.name.r00" on 13.04.
Same error ...
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I can't share internet in Ubuntu 13.04 with a windows device like I could in 12.10
I have IPv4 set to share internet, but with my Windows machine it will work for a few minutes and then just stop working. Can anyone tell me if there's a new way to do this, or if it is broken in this ...
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An(GUI) application like lan surfer or advanced ip scanner in Ubuntu?
Is there any (GUI) application like lan surfer or advanced ip scanner in Ubuntu 12.10 to find out shared folders over LAN ?
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How can I share files between xp and Ubuntu 12.04?
I am new to Ubuntu.Trying to share files between os's dual boot xp ubuntu 12.04.Are there programs to load on each os to do this?
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ACPI Exception when using 802.11n with hostapd
I have an Ubuntu 12.04.2 server to share internet.
A wifi dongle is connected to it
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 148f:5372 Ralink Technology, Corp.
When I enable 802.11n support in hostapd with
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Access, from Windows, files copied from Ubuntu to a media partition
I have a laptop with 3 partitions on a 500gb hdd:
Windows 8 - 60gb - ntfs
Ubuntu 12.4 - 40gb - ext4
A media partition - 390gb - ntfs
I copied music files to the media partition while using Ubuntu ...
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How do I share my Audio CD?
I used to use samba to share my CD's including audio CD's. I used to mount them "/mnt/cdrom" or "/media/cdrom" with a entry in "/etc/fstab" and entry in "smb.conf" to share that location but now!
I ...
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How to share a wireless connection through ethernet with fixed ip addresses?
I have a macbook with ubuntu quantal running on it and I also have a device with a linux distro (FYI, a raspberry pi*).
I've been trying to set up the device to share my laptop's wireless connection ...
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Wlan unplugs when ethernet connected
I own an HP ProBook 4510s Energy Star.
I am connected over WiFi to the internet with a broad-com BCM4312 using the b43 driver.
I am trying to share my Internet connection to a tp-link access ...
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Share Ubuntu between two computers and explore ubuntu
I have a Ubuntu 12.04 using the full hard disk in my laptop and a WUBI Ubuntu 12.04 using 30 GB in my desktop. Now I want to explore the networking features of Ubuntu. Like telnet and ssh. CLI etc etc ...
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Setting permissions for home server directories
I am fairly new at all this.
I have set up a home server using an old laptop and Ubuntu 12.04 to stream media to my LG TV through their DLNA system called MediaLink. This is being done through Plex ...
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PC to Router Internet sharing, unable to establish ethernet connection
Laptop gets the Internet through wifi. I'm trying to plug a router to the laptop to create a new wifi network. Laptop would bridge. What I want:
INTERNET ((( wifi ))) LAPTOP <--- ethernet ---> ...
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How to download entire folder
Is it possible to download entire folder with all files in it the easy way from someone else's ubuntu one account (if that folder is shared for me)?
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How do I share my wireless connection via a wired cable?
Im trying to share the wireless from my netbook eeepc to my desktop computer that does not have any wifi, it can run internet through a cable connected to my internet router but im wondering if there ...
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Why can a new user not write to external Hard Drive?
I installed Precise Pangolin using this guide. I created a user account for my wife and a guest account. I formatted and mounted an external hard drive to the server. I created several file shares ...
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Mouse and keyboard sharing between multiple computers
I have tried using synergy, it works overall pretty good expect for one thing; when I don't put it in elevated mod the unity launcher bar will not show up when I mouse over it. The reason I don't put ...
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Shared internet connection - console equvalent
I know how to share ethernet connection (bridged with wifi) with Network Manager GUI.
Now I'm trying to do the same from console (Ubuntu server 12.04).
The steps I did for now:
Connected to wifi via ...
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Unable to create files on Ubuntu Windows Share
I have an fstab entry that looks like the following:
//192.XXX.XXX.XXX/pppshare /mnt/backup cifs username=myusrname,password=mypassword,mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
The pppshare is a Windows 7 ...
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How can I automount VirtualBox shares in a non-default mountpoint?
I'm trying to automount VirtualBox Shared Folders in Ubuntu, the Sharenames are *_DRIVE, whereas * is D,E, etc. to then share them again via samba. If i
mount -t vboxsf D_DRIVE /media/shares/D
it ...
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Shared Folder Disappeared After Enabling Time Machine Backup
A few days ago, I built an HTPC and installed Ubuntu Desktop 12.10. My main purpose for this was to use it as an XBMC HTPC but also as a "NAS" where I can stream mp4 files from and also as a time ...
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Connecting to windows share as guest - cannot read files
I have an HP scanner with an SD card that it shares over the network. It requires no username or password to access the files. I connect to it daily with a Windows 7 PC without problem.
I try to ...
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problem sharing printer via samba in Ubuntu server 12.04
I have cannon ImageRunner 1133 I want to share it through samba with cups server installed on Ubuntu server 12.04
it works all fine I installed samba and cups server ubuntu and windows clients can ...
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Sharing external HDD from Ubuntu to Windows Vista
My first question over here. I am struggling with getting a share working properly. Please advise whether the logs and prints are viable and what else you may need.
I have a pretty-much corrupted ...
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Able to access shared files on Ubuntu from Windows only when I ping the IP from Ubuntu
I shared a folder from the Shared Options of the folder allowing guest access. If I try to open this folder (or my Ubuntu system) from my Win7 system using the IP or the hostname, I get an error. But ...
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Can multiple Linux machines concurrently use a Windows shared folder?
Is it a good idea to mount a Windows-based folder share on multiple Linux (Ubuntu) machines?
Would there be a performance drop?
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Sharing wired network [duplicate]
I have a wired connection over a proxy server, and I'd like to share it over wireless to my other laptop. Is there some software or something that allows me to do this? I am using ubuntu 12.04 on the ...
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Remote Desktop Works for a few seconds then disappears
I am having difficulty getting the remote desktop icon to show up both on my ubuntu machine and on my network from other computers. It shows up for about two seconds and then vanishes. I believe it ...
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How can I share my internet connection via bluetooth? [duplicate]
I'm running ubuntu 12.04 I have a hp laptop brand and I would like to share my internet connection via bluetooth
I searched on google but I found nothing serious
Can you help me please ?
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Trying to mount Mac shared folder over wireless home network
I am fairly new to linux and find myself in pickle. My desktop machine in running Ubuntu 12.04, and my laptop is running OSX leopard (10.5). Is there a way I can connect to my Mac's shared folder via ...
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How to access Samba shares in Lubuntu 12.10
Lubuntu uses PCmanFM as it's default file manager. I want to access my samba share with PCmanFM to upload and download files. I've already installed the "samba" and "cifs-utils" packages and thier ...
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Local file copy using SMB shares
I created two SMB shares for my local disks on my server: disk1 and disk2. Using my laptop I can access the shares. If I try to copy files between these two shares using my laptop the speed is very ...
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More than one shared folder in Virtualbox
I use Ubuntu 12.04 in VirtualBox and lately I have been having issues with my USB drives. I read a thread that mentioned an option to add the drive as a shared folder. Now when I sudo mount -t ...
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Share Connection Without Nat
How to Share a connection on Ubuntu Server without NAT
eth0: 192.168.10.156
eth1: 192.168.5.1
I am creating a Cache Server with TPROXY (squid 3.1), but in my network will not use nat as to deliver ...
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How to set up a network printer. (shared with windows)
I have a freshly installed Ubuntu 12.04LTS and I wanted to use it to share an offline (wired) printer that is connected to the machine running ubuntu.
I wanted to be able to print to this printer ...
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Multiparty video conferencing between Linux/Windows?
I have a group of friends that we are often physically separate, but we like to play old school table top RPG's. A video conferencing solution seems ideal for this.
What we need is cross platform, ...
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How does Nautilus mount Windows network drives?
When I browse my local network, I can access the windows drives of a Windows machine without any issue. Everything is visible, shared or not shared folders. I have full permissions.
I notice that ...
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Shared mounted folder on standart user can read-only files
I've shared a folder, then logged in to another user and mounted in to ~/Documents. User is Standard, has the group samba.
I have tried a lot of permissions with chown, chmod and so on. The user with ...
