Gday Why in 2020 does linux still require people to drop to command line and type shit in FFS in 2020 Linux still cant match windows 98se for MS PAINT and MS file sharing ease of use
Hello! I am looking for: how to add files in the media server. I already have the server running my TV and my other devices already detect it but all the folders in it are empty, and I already tried to add files to the folders I also try to add permission in yast and in the terminal but the only thing I get is to duplicate the folders but they are still empty. I would appreciate it very much if you made a video of how to do it, I"m new on linux PLEASE! I don't want to go back to windows
@@charliebrownau you obviously do not know the purpose of foss and also you have not had enough time with LInux to appreciate its intricacies and ease of use. On windows you need to the same thing and eventually end up in a command line anyways but to each its own
Finally! A samba tutorial that works!! And I think you're the first to mention that option in Windows to enable samba shares. That old computer that's been uselessly running in my front closet for a year can finally be used as the file server it was meant to be. Thank you!
It's alive, after ages of trying online forums, docs and failing I was just about give up on linux for this home server to install Windows. I thought one last chance for this installation, stumbled across this video and 20 minutes later Samba was up and running, thank you so much
Thank you so much! I realize that your vid is 18 months old, but I was trying to configure Samba on Ubuntu 20.04 with Windows 10. I was using the default smb.conf file, but it was so confusing due to all the commented out params. I had read at least 1/2 dozen tutorials on setting up Samba on Ubuntu for Windows access, but none mentioned that you need to enable the SMB 1.0 service on Windows. Matter of fact, one tutorial I read linked to a Microsoft page which warned against using SMB 1.0. Well, I'm on a local network, and have excellent firewall so I am not worried about security with SMB 1.0. I have upvoted your video, and have liked and subscribed to your channel. Thank you. Ethan TX
This is an old video but please don't enable SMB1.0, it's insecure, slow, obsolete and should not be used on newer OS. Add following line under [global] section in smb.conf instead: max protocol = SMB3. Or, if it doesn't work(for example, on Centos 6.x) try: max protocol = SMB2. If You have new enough(>= 4.2) Samba, do not add max protocol, it should work (and use SMB2 or SMB3) by default.
Many, many, many thanks for this simple setup that works. As you said it is RIDICULOUS how much info is out there that just complicates things or includes super advanced setups that only very few people use. I can finally share my external drives over my home network with this setup. Seriously you are a life saver.
Hey Chris just wanted to give a big THANK YOU. After watching this video I was able to set up my home network of 2 Linux computers and 2 Win 10 computers, I have been fighting this for days.
Thank you for this video.. I was banging my head for days on this setup. :) The most useful part was enabling the windows 10 feature for smb1... alot of other guides did not show this step and made my setup to continue to fail... this helped me so much. Thanks again
Hi Chris, Thanks for the great video. As a reminder, I just wanted to add that we can't wait for the mentioned follow-up video on "Advanced Samba Sharing". ( I hope that I haven't missed it)
This helped me with an assignment! Turns out that my Windows Machine had the SMB 1.0 client disabled by default. I had to activate it, and it seems to be working (at least, for this example). Thanks!
I recently made my htpc an Ubuntu machine...been working on it all day today, reading and errors left and right. Found your video, and I finally have it working! Thank you very much for creating this. I'm using Ubuntu 19.04 as the server and Windows 10 Pro laptop. Easy instructions to follow.
Worked great with Host: MX Linux / Debian Buster, Guest: Windows 10 on Virt-manager Qemu/KVM. A tutorial that is understandable and easy to follow. Next time I will look for instructions explicitly from you. That saves time. Thank you very much from Vienna, Austria
Watching it work and looking at what I wrote assisted me in seeing what I had done wrong. I'm grateful for your tips, and as you stated at the beginning these are for the new users. Well these also help with troubleshooting little errors.
dude you literally saved my ass. I needed to enable the SMB settings on my windows box - that was my problem. Been looking and looking for days. Thanks a million.
Relatively new to Linux, running Kubuntu 20.04. I don't know why I didn't follow your instructions first, but after 14 hours I finally got it to work with your video. Thank you. However in all my previous blunders I found I had a problem with ssh and had to remove and reinstall which might have been part of my problem. So all's well, and it all works. Thanks again. Kubuntu 20.04
I remember when it used to be easy the other way around to browse Windows file shares from Linux and then several years ago, the Linux distros decided that wasn't secure enough or something, so now, even though the file managers have an option to browse Windows networks, it just comes up blank or gives you an inaccessibility error w/ no help to the user on what to do to enable it. It kinda felt like they were just saying, "Hey! You're a Linux user. Figure it out!" ;-)
Some folks may run into a connection problem, as I did. You may mention that the default firewall settings may stop Windows or Linux computers on the home network from communicating with the smbd service on the Linux box hosting the shared folder. It took me a few minutes to figure this out. I used Gufw to Allow incoming connections from the Home network through the Linux box firewall. Also, the Windows 10 I am using will not automatically discover the share (apparently a Windows 10 issue). I had to "Add a network location" via "This PC" in the File Explorer in order to get access to the shared folder. Thanks for your efforts, which made setting up a Samba share simpler.
Fantastic! Many thanks for this excellent video, which has helped me solve a problem I've had for a while. Seems never trust the default smb.conf file. As a relatively new Linux user, I was avoiding editing the default file for fear of 'breaking' the system. Your approach worked perfectly!
OMG! Dude, I've been doing all sorts of crazy stuff for weeks trying to find the magic combination to get this right. Found this video today and it just works! Had to undo some of the other stuff I had going on there, but so glad I found this. Thanks so much!
I have been trying to setup samba to have shared folders between my Windows guest in KVM and my linux distro Manjaro. I actually had Virtualbox running already before but I switched to KVM because I wanted to even lower the overhead running a bunch of Windows programs that can't be run on wine. I only have my lower end laptop with me so gotta conserve every drop of performance hahaha. My college already started their semester, and they are teaching Visual Basic, so yeah I needed Visual Studio. (Kind of lame really, they could have gone for python if they worry about difficulty but nonetheless, I need to comply.) THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN SIR TITUS, YOU REALLY HELPED ME OUT!
As this video is old, I had some issues. I found that commenting out the "force user" and "force workgroup" lines were necessary, and it worked. I also had to configure my default firewall in linux mint, as was described in the description of this video.
Thanks you. I spent a couple of hours of trying to figure out how to get Mint 19 to connect to a shared printer on my Windows Machine before finding your video.
amazing. yet another video on how to share files/folders NOT between two actual machines, but using a host to virtual machine that already can share files/folders just by selecting an option from a drop down menu.
Thank you very much! You literally saved my day! I had done +2 hours trying to fix an issue and it was the SMB 1.0 feature that I didn't have enabled. Thanks!
Instead of changing stuff on every single Windows 10 PC, can't you just add "client min protocol = SMB2" and "client max protocol = SMB3" under [global]?
@@ChrisTitusTech I have to be honest, I have a Samba share running on my computer running MX Linux, and I've never had to add SMB1.0 CIFS features to get it to work. I've even managed to map my share to a drive letter in Windows 10.
Windows supports SMB by default, it only dropped support for 1.0/CIFS because it's crazy insecure. All it needs is add the "min protocol" parameter as SMB2 or SMB3 on smb.conf
Good job mate...thanks. Still learning Linux and loving it. Creating a network however, needs some simplifying from my vantage point. Sharing in windows is super easy and had no problems at all, but this Samba sharing has me jumping through that many darn hoops I dont know whether I am Arthur or Martha lol. Of course my interface is different from your older version, but I did manage to get all 3 of my boxes joined together on a semblance of a network (if you could call it that) and after giving preferences to just about every man and his dog, I can now view all boxes from every angle. Problem is... can't transfer folders from one to another (Permission denied) or edit a file that has been moved from one to another. Already balding and cant afford to pull any more hair out lol. Trying to see a funny side, but hard to do. Is there a way to give full permission without the 777 comand?
Hello sir, Love all your videos and this tutorial worked great. Thanks. But oncr i got samba working, the transfer speed was too low than using windows. ( 7 MB/sec) . Any tips on that?
Thanks Chris this works great , before installed samba and enabled samba in win 10 it did not work it was giving me a permissions error , following your script now works fine
Another added level of security is creating a new group: sambashare and a new user: sambauser to be entry point into samba. It is important to disallow a shell for this user, then you can add yourself to the group sambashare and use this user and group as a default access point in smb.conf
Thank you Chris for posting this. I heard there is a GUI for configgering Samba. Is that true? WHatever I do I get messages like 'server timed out' when I try to access shares from another Linux computer.
I have gone through the cut and paste tutorial from Ubuntu and I am being limited to 100GB in my share is there a setting in my .conf I can change to expand into the full near TB of storage I have available? It is nice to see someone take the time to explain the terminal based implementations rather than the standard RTFM.
Nice video sir i created a samba share almost 1 year ago for my anime 😂 , but i haven't added that ip protection thanks . And please make a advance version on it
I installed Samba on Ubuntu Bionic Bunny 18.04, and it installed correctly according to Ubuntu, but wouldn't show up on ANY Windows system in my network at all ANYWHERE in my home on the 6 other Windows computers I have running in my house!! TWO WEEKS I tried to troubleshoot the problem, two weeks everything I did failed, and I finally gave up, left it alone and was tempted to yank the install back off the Ubuntu machine I was running it on! THEN one morning I fired up my two work horse computers, my Ubuntu system and my Windows 7 machines, and half awake I sat here moving files between them like I normally do with a flash drive, until out of the blue I decided to open "network" in Windows Explorer, and there to my amazement was my Linux machine FINALLY showing up in the list....which when I clicked on it there in the "location folder" was my "Samba Drive" file folder I had set up as a test "place" on my network!! I don't know HOW it fixed itself, I don't know WHY it fixed itself, but for two weeks I couldn't get Samba to work or run or even show up on the network, and then one day it just started working two weeks later!! Now three more weeks have gone by and I still DO NOT UNDERSTAND what changed that Linux and Windows can now share files!! It is the weirdest "glitch" I have ever seen!!
Thank you so much, it works as it should. for some reason using the build-in Ubuntu share for folders on an external USB drive was not accessible from windows. well, I can see the shared folder in windows explorer but can't open it, however, building the samba config file as you showed worked right away. I guess I need to check the differences between your .conf file and the original samba file.
Thank you for this tutorial it straight to the point and worked well. can you assist with one issue though how do i speed up my samba share its so so so SLOW
Have you though about using github for hosting any files, commands used for these videos? You could do what you are currently doing, but have a github link to config files and such, too. The repository could also contain a link to the video in its read me markdown file.
Yes! I have actually done this on a few videos that involved scripts. This is a fantastic idea though to do it for all the cheat sheets, as I love github and need to use it more. Here is my current Github: github.com/ChrisTitusTech
Thanks for this Video... Brilliant. I was wondering... I'm setting up a file server for an office, just for CAD files on a network with mostly Microsoft Windows PC's. I was thinking to doing this on Ubuntu Server via Webmin. Or would you recommend using Windows Server? It will only be a fileserver.
Hey Chris, what are the chances of taking another look at this in 2020? I think there's been some ah, 'changes', to the samba service works. Especially in Arch based distros...
My ubuntu 18.xxxx distro didn't have the Local Network Share, or a smb.conf file in /etc. So used Synaptic to download/install SAMBA. It did, but no love. Guessing I need Nautilus then?
Chris, what is is the best way to share an entire drive rather than a folder? Is it a matter of mounting the drives with automount and then in the smb.conf point the share to /mnt/XXXX where XXXX is the drive info?
I did install Samba, I did install Nautilus, I did share 1 map with music (I want to share the whole disk, not possible?) (Do I need to make a new folder and put all my folders with bands and their music in that one?) But further....do I need to check your whole story you wrote with the Terminal? And what I do at the other side, my TV Box connected with my TV? I have VLC player or FooPlayer or Kodi, what do I need to do there? Thank you in advance for any response.
What about a FTP server? I tried to configure one for a little enterprise because they needed the server in their building and have access inside and outside the building. I just couldn’t have it right configured because they need the private address of the server inside the network and a DDNS doesn’t work inside, but it works outside the private network
doesn't work for me. If I try to open the shared folder from windows, it says that the user doesn't have the authorization (impossibile to find user name), and if I try to open in from ubuntu, it says "failed to mount windows share, invalid argument"
Great video! If you do not mind, can you show us how to do the NFS file share. I have a Ubuntu server and Ubuntu client desktop. How do I share folders between the two?
I have a few servers, but I think I'm having trouble with permissions :), have a media server via docker (working quite well) and a simple server using Deluge, and I'm having problems with sharing the Deluge folder - I think it's because the deluge files have deluge:deluge rather than my user:user group. Gotta admit this kind of stuff was easier under windows, but I've finally made the leap to linux on all my machines. Gone from somewhat of an expert to a really noobie :) When Linux works its great, but when there is a problem it's hard work, but thats the fun, trying to get it to work. Looking forward to my video's, try and not get UA-cam burnout :)
This is great thank you. Just a question about the host allow and deny IP addresses. I'm guessing that 192.168.0.0/16 is for the USA only, or your specific state? Is anything in that universal? I'm nervous to use my own IP or to use the ISP's IP address, not confident to know what a general range would be, or how to see that. Virtual Box is enabled, but windows terminal thinks otherwise. I didn't know to check any of these things or that I should understand DHCP more because I was taking the wrong IP for ages. I finally after 3 days got into the network from windows and I can't see my shared ubuntu folder.
The IP adress is a standard private network range, that is not localised in any means. Even in Germany we use the same range for private IP adresses. You need your local IP adress and not your router external IP adress to setup the smbd server. On linux ifconfig and you can look up your local IP adress.
everything worked well but my guest are allowed to do what they want on the server. how i change the guest to be able to create and view but NOT to delete?thanks
Not sure why, but this set up stopped working for me as of recently. I get this error "'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name "Everyone" to a SID. The network responded incorrectly.." when I attempt to reshare my file locally. My smb.conf file is set up exactly as it is here. When I remove this file and use the default one, I am able to set up the share. Then I just run into the issue of trying to configure it so that I get it as another user on another computer in the network
I am trying to share a usb drive from Ubuntu to win11. I have setup the samba service and successfully shared a folder but I am stuck on the syntax for sharing the external usb drive.
Hey Chris, i came across to this video searching for a solution for a problem with samba between my laptop and my desktop computer. Both are Linux Mint. But now i found out that mount is telling me this: "mount error(115): Operation now in progress" just because the firewall on my laptop was active and in default setting. i deactivated it for testing and the sharing worked just fine. Here is my Question: How do i set up the Firewall in a way that it can stay active but allow me to share files at home?
the files i create via the non-terminal method are discoverable on my windows machine but when they are created the are owned by "nobody". when i do the terminal method the file is not discoverable on the windows machine. bit confused really.
Timestamps:
0:18 - Samba Share setup in Ubuntu GUI (nautilus)
2:25 - Terminal Setup - Smb.conf walkthrough
12:25 - Enabling SMB 1.0 in Windows
14:37 - Verifying Shares and Access
Did you end up doing the advanced samba sharing Chris, i can't find it
Gday Why in 2020 does linux still require people to drop to command line and type shit in
FFS in 2020 Linux still cant match windows 98se for MS PAINT and MS file sharing ease of use
Hello! I am looking for: how to add files in the media server. I already have the server running my TV and my other devices already detect it but all the folders in it are empty, and I already tried to add files to the folders I also try to add permission in yast and in the terminal but the only thing I get is to duplicate the folders but they are still empty. I would appreciate it very much if you made a video of how to do it, I"m new on linux PLEASE! I don't want to go back to windows
@@charliebrownau you obviously do not know the purpose of foss and also you have not had enough time with LInux to appreciate its intricacies and ease of use. On windows you need to the same thing and eventually end up in a command line anyways but to each its own
Finally! A samba tutorial that works!! And I think you're the first to mention that option in Windows to enable samba shares. That old computer that's been uselessly running in my front closet for a year can finally be used as the file server it was meant to be. Thank you!
It's alive, after ages of trying online forums, docs and failing I was just about give up on linux for this home server to install Windows. I thought one last chance for this installation, stumbled across this video and 20 minutes later Samba was up and running, thank you so much
Thank you so much! I realize that your vid is 18 months old, but I was trying to configure Samba on Ubuntu 20.04 with Windows 10. I was using the default smb.conf file, but it was so confusing due to all the commented out params.
I had read at least 1/2 dozen tutorials on setting up Samba on Ubuntu for Windows access, but none mentioned that you need to enable the SMB 1.0 service on Windows.
Matter of fact, one tutorial I read linked to a Microsoft page which warned against using SMB 1.0.
Well, I'm on a local network, and have excellent firewall so I am not worried about security with SMB 1.0.
I have upvoted your video, and have liked and subscribed to your channel.
Thank you.
Ethan TX
Yeah, same here. I guess I will re-add most of the config later but now I am just happy it works and I am not braindamaged.
Doesn't work, windows computer wants credentials and after I enter them it tells me I don't have permission to use the network resource.
Still the same today in 2025. Even afrer turning off guestauth on windows
This is an old video but please don't enable SMB1.0, it's insecure, slow, obsolete and should not be used on newer OS. Add following line under [global] section in smb.conf instead: max protocol = SMB3. Or, if it doesn't work(for example, on Centos 6.x) try: max protocol = SMB2. If You have new enough(>= 4.2) Samba, do not add max protocol, it should work (and use SMB2 or SMB3) by default.
Forgot about this video, but you are correct. SMB1.0 should NEVER be used!
Old vid, but obviously still relevant. Been a while since I've used samba on a linux server. This helped me out. Thanks!
Many, many, many thanks for this simple setup that works. As you said it is RIDICULOUS how much info is out there that just complicates things or includes super advanced setups that only very few people use. I can finally share my external drives over my home network with this setup. Seriously you are a life saver.
Hey Chris just wanted to give a big THANK YOU. After watching this video I was able to set up my home network of 2 Linux computers and 2 Win 10 computers, I have been fighting this for days.
5 years later and still helpful. Thanks man!
Thank you for this video.. I was banging my head for days on this setup. :) The most useful part was enabling the windows 10 feature for smb1... alot of other guides did not show this step and made my setup to continue to fail... this helped me so much. Thanks again
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the great video. As a reminder, I just wanted to add that we can't wait for the mentioned follow-up video on "Advanced Samba Sharing". ( I hope that I haven't missed it)
I have tried a whole lot of things. This is the only one that worked. Thanks a lot for this and for a lot of your other work.
Chris, I relealize this video was created about 2yrs ago. However wanted to thank you for a very informative well explained process.
This helped me with an assignment! Turns out that my Windows Machine had the SMB 1.0 client disabled by default. I had to activate it, and it seems to be working (at least, for this example). Thanks!
I recently made my htpc an Ubuntu machine...been working on it all day today, reading and errors left and right. Found your video, and I finally have it working! Thank you very much for creating this. I'm using Ubuntu 19.04 as the server and Windows 10 Pro laptop. Easy instructions to follow.
"Chris Titus Tech is awesome"! I'll second that. After trying many googled solutions I gave up on Samba, then I found yours. Simple and clean. Thanks!
Worked great with Host: MX Linux / Debian Buster, Guest: Windows 10 on Virt-manager Qemu/KVM. A tutorial that is understandable and easy to follow. Next time I will look for instructions explicitly from you. That saves time. Thank you very much from Vienna, Austria
Watching it work and looking at what I wrote assisted me in seeing what I had done wrong. I'm grateful for your tips, and as you stated at the beginning these are for the new users. Well these also help with troubleshooting little errors.
dude you literally saved my ass.
I needed to enable the SMB settings on my windows box - that was my problem. Been looking and looking for days.
Thanks a million.
Relatively new to Linux, running Kubuntu 20.04. I don't know why I didn't follow your instructions first, but after 14 hours I finally got it to work with your video. Thank you. However in all my previous blunders I found I had a problem with ssh and had to remove and reinstall which might have been part of my problem. So all's well, and it all works. Thanks again. Kubuntu 20.04
I remember when it used to be easy the other way around to browse Windows file shares from Linux and then several years ago, the Linux distros decided that wasn't secure enough or something, so now, even though the file managers have an option to browse Windows networks, it just comes up blank or gives you an inaccessibility error w/ no help to the user on what to do to enable it. It kinda felt like they were just saying, "Hey! You're a Linux user. Figure it out!" ;-)
Some folks may run into a connection problem, as I did. You may mention that the default firewall settings may stop Windows or Linux computers on the home network from communicating with the smbd service on the Linux box hosting the shared folder. It took me a few minutes to figure this out. I used Gufw to Allow incoming connections from the Home network through the Linux box firewall. Also, the Windows 10 I am using will not automatically discover the share (apparently a Windows 10 issue). I had to "Add a network location" via "This PC" in the File Explorer in order to get access to the shared folder. Thanks for your efforts, which made setting up a Samba share simpler.
Fantastic!
Many thanks for this excellent video, which has helped me solve a problem I've had for a while. Seems never trust the default smb.conf file. As a relatively new Linux user, I was avoiding editing the default file for fear of 'breaking' the system. Your approach worked perfectly!
OMG! Dude, I've been doing all sorts of crazy stuff for weeks trying to find the magic combination to get this right. Found this video today and it just works! Had to undo some of the other stuff I had going on there, but so glad I found this. Thanks so much!
Man! You saved my life. Thanks for the pro setup. Worked like charm!
I have been trying to setup samba to have shared folders between my Windows guest in KVM and my linux distro Manjaro. I actually had Virtualbox running already before but I switched to KVM because I wanted to even lower the overhead running a bunch of Windows programs that can't be run on wine. I only have my lower end laptop with me so gotta conserve every drop of performance hahaha.
My college already started their semester, and they are teaching Visual Basic, so yeah I needed Visual Studio. (Kind of lame really, they could have gone for python if they worry about difficulty but nonetheless, I need to comply.)
THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN SIR TITUS, YOU REALLY HELPED ME OUT!
Worked for me on Arch. FINALLY got samba to work. Great tutorial. Next step: being able to run games from the SMB folder on Windows 10 VM.
This was too easy I am mad at how much time I wasted before watching this video. Thanks!
As this video is old, I had some issues. I found that commenting out the "force user" and "force workgroup" lines were necessary, and it worked.
I also had to configure my default firewall in linux mint, as was described in the description of this video.
9:01 the force create mode works, it just needs to be written as force create mode not mod.
Thanks you. I spent a couple of hours of trying to figure out how to get Mint 19 to connect to a shared printer on my Windows Machine before finding your video.
Love your content. Re-film this one so you don't look like a psychopath.
great video, helped clear up stuff while troubleshooting my fileserver! definately saving for reference
amazing. yet another video on how to share files/folders NOT between two actual machines, but using a host to virtual machine that already can share files/folders just by selecting an option from a drop down menu.
This tutorial worked perfectly for me! Learned some new stuff too. Excellent.
Great job Chris! I'll have to check out the next installment.
Just informing me to enable SMB did the trick. Thank you so much!
Very useful and informative video, as always. This helped me. Thanks!
Thank you very much! You literally saved my day! I had done +2 hours trying to fix an issue and it was the SMB 1.0 feature that I didn't have enabled. Thanks!
Instead of changing stuff on every single Windows 10 PC, can't you just add "client min protocol = SMB2" and "client max protocol = SMB3" under [global]?
Thanks Sten, I'll have to try this out.
@@ChrisTitusTech I have to be honest, I have a Samba share running on my computer running MX Linux, and I've never had to add SMB1.0 CIFS features to get it to work. I've even managed to map my share to a drive letter in Windows 10.
Where did the Nautilus file-sharing integration go???? I don't see it in Redhat 8
@@BreakingBuzz123 many file managers now require plugins for Samba, Dropbox and other filesharing options.
Windows supports SMB by default, it only dropped support for 1.0/CIFS because it's crazy insecure. All it needs is add the "min protocol" parameter as SMB2 or SMB3 on smb.conf
ty youtube for find you, damn it dude that is exactly what I was looking for. Big thanks from Brazil
Awesome video but where can I learn more about this? like info about more commands for the smb.conf
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I've used this to send files from my Laptop (linux) to iOS. Nice and Smooth. Thanks man! I still can get rsync working properly though XD
Thenks! It works. Easy, quick and straight. 😀
Good job mate...thanks. Still learning Linux and loving it. Creating a network however, needs some simplifying from my vantage point. Sharing in windows is super easy and had no problems at all, but this Samba sharing has me jumping through that many darn hoops I dont know whether I am Arthur or Martha lol. Of course my interface is different from your older version, but I did manage to get all 3 of my boxes joined together on a semblance of a network (if you could call it that) and after giving preferences to just about every man and his dog, I can now view all boxes from every angle. Problem is... can't transfer folders from one to another (Permission denied) or edit a file that has been moved from one to another. Already balding and cant afford to pull any more hair out lol. Trying to see a funny side, but hard to do. Is there a way to give full permission without the 777 comand?
This channel is taking off!
Thank you so much! I was becomming crazyyyyyy with those shares!
Hello sir,
Love all your videos and this tutorial worked great. Thanks.
But oncr i got samba working, the transfer speed was too low than using windows. ( 7 MB/sec) . Any tips on that?
Thanks Chris this works great , before installed samba and enabled samba in win 10 it did not work it was giving me a permissions error , following your script now works fine
Another added level of security is creating a new group: sambashare and a new user: sambauser to be entry point into samba. It is important to disallow a shell for this user, then you can add yourself to the group sambashare and use this user and group as a default access point in smb.conf
This gotta be the best samba tutorial i've seen on youtube
This is very helpful for me, thanks Chris
Thx for this video about linux samba, you are a hero!
Thank you Chris for posting this. I heard there is a GUI for configgering Samba. Is that true? WHatever I do I get messages like 'server timed out' when I try to access shares from another Linux computer.
for manjaro/arch users use the command sudo smbd service restart to restart it
Great video that's easy to follow. Just don't forget to add rules to your firewall to allow access to your files. XD
I have gone through the cut and paste tutorial from Ubuntu and I am being limited to 100GB in my share is there a setting in my .conf I can change to expand into the full near TB of storage I have available? It is nice to see someone take the time to explain the terminal based implementations rather than the standard RTFM.
Best video yet keep it up buddy and thanks a lot
Very helpful and understandable!
Thanks for sharing!
Nice video sir i created a samba share almost 1 year ago for my anime 😂 , but i haven't added that ip protection thanks . And please make a advance version on it
I installed Samba on Ubuntu Bionic Bunny 18.04, and it installed correctly according to Ubuntu, but wouldn't show up on ANY Windows system in my network at all ANYWHERE in my home on the 6 other Windows computers I have running in my house!! TWO WEEKS I tried to troubleshoot the problem, two weeks everything I did failed, and I finally gave up, left it alone and was tempted to yank the install back off the Ubuntu machine I was running it on!
THEN one morning I fired up my two work horse computers, my Ubuntu system and my Windows 7 machines, and half awake I sat here moving files between them like I normally do with a flash drive, until out of the blue I decided to open "network" in Windows Explorer, and there to my amazement was my Linux machine FINALLY showing up in the list....which when I clicked on it there in the "location folder" was my "Samba Drive" file folder I had set up as a test "place" on my network!!
I don't know HOW it fixed itself, I don't know WHY it fixed itself, but for two weeks I couldn't get Samba to work or run or even show up on the network, and then one day it just started working two weeks later!! Now three more weeks have gone by and I still DO NOT UNDERSTAND what changed that Linux and Windows can now share files!! It is the weirdest "glitch" I have ever seen!!
Thank you so much, it works as it should. for some reason using the build-in Ubuntu share for folders on an external USB drive was not accessible from windows. well, I can see the shared folder in windows explorer but can't open it, however, building the samba config file as you showed worked right away. I guess I need to check the differences between your .conf file and the original samba file.
Thank you! This was a fantastic guide!
Thank you for this tutorial it straight to the point and worked well. can you assist with one issue though how do i speed up my samba share its so so so SLOW
Dear Chris
I enjoyed the video.
Did you do the followup video on the samba?
Kind regarda
Excellent tutorial Chris. Thank you very much. Is there an advanced tutorial with samba user management?
Have you though about using github for hosting any files, commands used for these videos? You could do what you are currently doing, but have a github link to config files and such, too. The repository could also contain a link to the video in its read me markdown file.
Yes! I have actually done this on a few videos that involved scripts. This is a fantastic idea though to do it for all the cheat sheets, as I love github and need to use it more. Here is my current Github: github.com/ChrisTitusTech
It worked perfectly. Thanks a lot
Your video will help me to share family photos between 2 computers with 2 users each. Thanks.
Thanks for this Video... Brilliant. I was wondering... I'm setting up a file server for an office, just for CAD files on a network with mostly Microsoft Windows PC's. I was thinking to doing this on Ubuntu Server via Webmin. Or would you recommend using Windows Server? It will only be a fileserver.
Hey Chris, what are the chances of taking another look at this in 2020? I think there's been some ah, 'changes', to the samba service works. Especially in Arch based distros...
My ubuntu 18.xxxx distro didn't have the Local Network Share, or a smb.conf file in /etc. So used Synaptic to download/install SAMBA. It did, but no love. Guessing I need Nautilus then?
Thanks a bunch short sweet simple works like a charm .
Chris, what is is the best way to share an entire drive rather than a folder? Is it a matter of mounting the drives with automount and then in the smb.conf point the share to /mnt/XXXX where XXXX is the drive info?
Great video. Thanx. However I did not find part 2 that you had talked about.
14:45 where can i find my ip address? I wrote ip addr show in my debian and both of IPs don't work while connecting from Windows..
Is necessary change your type ip dynamic from static.
@@mayconantonio3357 how? Why does he didn't told about that and showed.
I did install Samba, I did install Nautilus, I did share 1 map with music (I want to share the whole disk, not possible?) (Do I need to make a new folder and put all my folders with bands and their music in that one?) But further....do I need to check your whole story you wrote with the Terminal? And what I do at the other side, my TV Box connected with my TV? I have VLC player or FooPlayer or Kodi, what do I need to do there? Thank you in advance for any response.
What about a FTP server? I tried to configure one for a little enterprise because they needed the server in their building and have access inside and outside the building. I just couldn’t have it right configured because they need the private address of the server inside the network and a DDNS doesn’t work inside, but it works outside the private network
my recommendation would be to also show how to just plain force smbv2 and v3. even samba on kernel 3.10 uses samba 4.3.x which supports native smb v2
doesn't work for me. If I try to open the shared folder from windows, it says that the user doesn't have the authorization (impossibile to find user name), and if I try to open in from ubuntu, it says "failed to mount windows share, invalid argument"
wow i try and it's work
thanks this tutorial help me a lot !!
Did you ever create the "more advanced" setup ?
Great video! If you do not mind, can you show us how to do the NFS file share. I have a Ubuntu server and Ubuntu client desktop. How do I share folders between the two?
Certainly, NFS is pretty easy to setup on your server.
I'd like that as I'm having major problems with NFS - whicj I thought would be better :)
@@try-that You got it. NFS is better in every way. I highly recommend it if you have a dedicated server.
I have a few servers, but I think I'm having trouble with permissions :), have a media server via docker (working quite well) and a simple server using Deluge, and I'm having problems with sharing the Deluge folder - I think it's because the deluge files have deluge:deluge rather than my user:user group. Gotta admit this kind of stuff was easier under windows, but I've finally made the leap to linux on all my machines. Gone from somewhat of an expert to a really noobie :) When Linux works its great, but when there is a problem it's hard work, but thats the fun, trying to get it to work.
Looking forward to my video's, try and not get UA-cam burnout :)
Thank you for the clear instructions but are my files safe ?
Is there any encryption or firewall option?
You should always start by telling us what version of Linux you are using. Thank you.
Can smb.conf be created and configured entirely using Smb4K GUI?
Great Question, I haven't used KDE that much and need to try this. I imagine that it would be pretty easy just like nautilus.
@@ChrisTitusTech I don't think you need KDE to use Smb4K. I have seen someone using Smb4K in Linux Mint Cinnamon 19 before.
I'll give it a whirl then.
@@ChrisTitusTech Found the video where i saw someone using Smb4K in LM 19 Cinnamon. ua-cam.com/video/4s4kBGb-YSs/v-deo.html
@@ChrisTitusTech Another Samba Gui is system-config-samba but its not updated since 2012 and may not work correctly.
This is great thank you. Just a question about the host allow and deny IP addresses. I'm guessing that 192.168.0.0/16 is for the USA only, or your specific state? Is anything in that universal? I'm nervous to use my own IP or to use the ISP's IP address, not confident to know what a general range would be, or how to see that. Virtual Box is enabled, but windows terminal thinks otherwise. I didn't know to check any of these things or that I should understand DHCP more because I was taking the wrong IP for ages. I finally after 3 days got into the network from windows and I can't see my shared ubuntu folder.
The IP adress is a standard private network range, that is not localised in any means. Even in Germany we use the same range for private IP adresses. You need your local IP adress and not your router external IP adress to setup the smbd server. On linux ifconfig and you can look up your local IP adress.
Thanks a bunch! It's the only tut out here that here works.
Can you make a video on diferent users and groups?
Again, thanks a lot.
Why not starting from the default config file?
thanks for the video for setup samba
everything worked well but my guest are allowed to do what they want on the server. how i change the guest to be able to create and view but NOT to delete?thanks
Not sure why, but this set up stopped working for me as of recently. I get this error "'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name "Everyone" to a SID. The network responded incorrectly.." when I attempt to reshare my file locally. My smb.conf file is set up exactly as it is here. When I remove this file and use the default one, I am able to set up the share. Then I just run into the issue of trying to configure it so that I get it as another user on another computer in the network
I am trying to share a usb drive from Ubuntu to win11. I have setup the samba service and successfully shared a folder but I am stuck on the syntax for sharing the external usb drive.
Hey Chris, i came across to this video searching for a solution for a problem with samba between my laptop and my desktop computer. Both are Linux Mint. But now i found out that mount is telling me this: "mount error(115): Operation now in progress" just because the firewall on my laptop was active and in default setting. i deactivated it for testing and the sharing worked just fine.
Here is my Question: How do i set up the Firewall in a way that it can stay active but allow me to share files at home?
Samba transfer speeds with Lubuntu & Pop!_OS tops @ 50MBps instead of 100 with windows 10. Do I need to setup something else to speed up Linux Samba?
Hi
This video helped me alot thanks
But how would I add an extra folder to this? Thanks for your help in advance
the files i create via the non-terminal method are discoverable on my windows machine but when they are created the are owned by "nobody". when i do the terminal method the file is not discoverable on the windows machine. bit confused really.