I am running an Ubuntu 12.04LTS PC and want to be able to look at and transfer/edit files both ways to and from a Win7 Laptop.
I have Samba and Ushare on the PC. What do I need to do to set up sharing?
So Win7 can see the Ubuntu box you need to share a directory and make sure samba is set to the same workgroup as Windows.
Check the Win7 PC’s workgroup is set as WORKGROUP
Then on the Ubuntu box, go into your home folder, and right-click the “Public” folder … and select “Share” … if prompted, select “allow guest”.
Win7 should now be able to see the Ubuntu box shared folder.
Once you have that working, we’ll work on getting Ubuntu to see any shared folders on the Win7 box … I taake it you have shared something on the Win7 box ?
Nope, neither one can see each other.
What is the Win7’s workgroup set to ?
What’s the contents of your
gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
[spoiler]#
Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux.
This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options most of which
are not shown in this example
Some options that are often worth tuning have been included as
commented-out examples in this file.
- When such options are commented with “;”, the proposed setting
differs from the default Samba behaviour
- When commented with “#”, the proposed setting is the default
behaviour of Samba but the option is considered important
enough to be mentioned here
NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command
“testparm” to check that you have not made any basic syntactic
errors.
A well-established practice is to name the original file
“smb.conf.master” and create the “real” config file with
testparm -s smb.conf.master >smb.conf
This minimizes the size of the really used smb.conf file
which, according to the Samba Team, impacts performance
However, use this with caution if your smb.conf file contains nested
“include” statements. See Debian bug #483187 for a case
where using a master file is not a good idea.
#======================= Global Settings =======================
[global]
Browsing/Identification
Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
workgroup = workgroup
server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field
server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:
WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server
wins support = no
WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client
Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both
; wins server = w.x.y.z
This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.
dns proxy = no
What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names
to IP addresses
; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
Networking
The specific set of interfaces / networks to bind to
This can be either the interface name or an IP address/netmask;
interface names are normally preferred
; interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 eth0
Only bind to the named interfaces and/or networks; you must use the
‘interfaces’ option above to use this.
It is recommended that you enable this feature if your Samba machine is
not protected by a firewall or is a firewall itself. However, this
option cannot handle dynamic or non-broadcast interfaces correctly.
; bind interfaces only = yes
Debugging/Accounting
This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine
that connects
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
Cap the size of the individual log files (in KiB).
max log size = 1000
If you want Samba to only log through syslog then set the following
parameter to ‘yes’.
syslog only = no
We want Samba to log a minimum amount of information to syslog. Everything
should go to /var/log/samba/log.{smbd,nmbd} instead. If you want to log
through syslog you should set the following parameter to something higher.
syslog = 0
Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
####### Authentication #######
“security = user” is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
in this server for every user accessing the server. See
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/ServerType.html
in the samba-doc package for details.
security = user
You may wish to use password encryption. See the section on
‘encrypt passwords’ in the smb.conf(5) manpage before enabling.
; encrypt passwords = yes
If you are using encrypted passwords, Samba will need to know what
password database type you are using.
; passdb backend = tdbsam
obey pam restrictions = yes
This boolean parameter controls whether Samba attempts to sync the Unix
password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the
passdb is changed.
unix password sync = yes
For Unix password sync to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following
parameters must be set (thanks to Ian Kahan <kahan@informatik.tu-muenchen.de for
sending the correct chat script for the passwd program in Debian Sarge).
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
This boolean controls whether PAM will be used for password changes
when requested by an SMB client instead of the program listed in
‘passwd program’. The default is ‘no’.
pam password change = yes
This option controls how unsuccessful authentication attempts are mapped
to anonymous connections
map to guest = bad user
########## Domains ###########
Is this machine able to authenticate users. Both PDC and BDC
must have this setting enabled. If you are the BDC you must
change the ‘domain master’ setting to no
; domain logons = yes
The following setting only takes effect if ‘domain logons’ is set
It specifies the location of the user’s profile directory
from the client point of view)
The following required a [profiles] share to be setup on the
samba server (see below)
; logon path = \%N\profiles%U
Another common choice is storing the profile in the user’s home directory
(this is Samba’s default)
logon path = \%N%U\profile
The following setting only takes effect if ‘domain logons’ is set
It specifies the location of a user’s home directory (from the client
point of view)
; logon drive = H:
logon home = \%N%U
The following setting only takes effect if ‘domain logons’ is set
It specifies the script to run during logon. The script must be stored
in the [netlogon] share
NOTE: Must be store in ‘DOS’ file format convention
; logon script = logon.cmd
This allows Unix users to be created on the domain controller via the SAMR
RPC pipe. The example command creates a user account with a disabled Unix
password; please adapt to your needs
; add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser --quiet --disabled-password --gecos “” %u
This allows machine accounts to be created on the domain controller via the
SAMR RPC pipe.
The following assumes a “machines” group exists on the system
; add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -g machines -c “%u machine account” -d /var/lib/samba -s /bin/false %u
This allows Unix groups to be created on the domain controller via the SAMR
RPC pipe.
; add group script = /usr/sbin/addgroup --force-badname %g
########## Printing ##########
If you want to automatically load your printer list rather
than setting them up individually then you’ll need this
load printers = yes
lpr(ng) printing. You may wish to override the location of the
printcap file
; printing = bsd
; printcap name = /etc/printcap
CUPS printing. See also the cupsaddsmb(8) manpage in the
cupsys-client package.
; printing = cups
; printcap name = cups
############ Misc ############
Using the following line enables you to customise your configuration
on a per machine basis. The %m gets replaced with the netbios name
of the machine that is connecting
; include = /home/samba/etc/smb.conf.%m
Most people will find that this option gives better performance.
See smb.conf(5) and /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/speed.html
for details
You may want to add the following on a Linux system:
SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package
installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are
working to ease installation and configuration of linpopup and samba.
; message command = /bin/sh -c ‘/usr/bin/linpopup “%f” “%m” %s; rm %s’ &
Domain Master specifies Samba to be the Domain Master Browser. If this
machine will be configured as a BDC (a secondary logon server), you
must set this to ‘no’; otherwise, the default behavior is recommended.
domain master = auto
Some defaults for winbind (make sure you’re not using the ranges
for something else.)
; idmap uid = 10000-20000
; idmap gid = 10000-20000
; template shell = /bin/bash
The following was the default behaviour in sarge,
but samba upstream reverted the default because it might induce
performance issues in large organizations.
See Debian bug #368251 for some of the consequences of not
having this setting and smb.conf(5) for details.
; winbind enum groups = yes
; winbind enum users = yes
Setup usershare options to enable non-root users to share folders
with the net usershare command.
Maximum number of usershare. 0 (default) means that usershare is disabled.
; usershare max shares = 100
Allow users who’ve been granted usershare privileges to create
public shares, not just authenticated ones
usershare allow guests = yes
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
security = user
; guest ok = no
; guest account = nobody
#======================= Share Definitions =======================
Un-comment the following (and tweak the other settings below to suit)
to enable the default home directory shares. This will share each
user’s home director as \server\username
;[homes]
; comment = Home Directories
; browseable = no
By default, the home directories are exported read-only. Change the
next parameter to ‘no’ if you want to be able to write to them.
; read only = yes
File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
; create mask = 0700
Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
; directory mask = 0700
By default, \server\username shares can be connected to by anyone
with access to the samba server. Un-comment the following parameter
to make sure that only “username” can connect to \server\username
The following parameter makes sure that only “username” can connect
This might need tweaking when using external authentication schemes
; valid users = %S
Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons
(you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.)
;[netlogon]
; comment = Network Logon Service
; path = /home/samba/netlogon
; guest ok = yes
; read only = yes
Un-comment the following and create the profiles directory to store
users profiles (see the “logon path” option above)
(you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.)
The path below should be writable by all users so that their
profile directory may be created the first time they log on
;[profiles]
; comment = Users profiles
; path = /home/samba/profiles
; guest ok = no
; browseable = no
; create mask = 0600
; directory mask = 0700
[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = no
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = yes
; guest ok = no
; read only = yes
create mask = 0700
Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable
printer drivers
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
; browseable = yes
; read only = yes
; guest ok = no
Uncomment to allow remote administration of Windows print drivers.
You may need to replace ‘lpadmin’ with the name of the group your
admin users are members of.
Please note that you also need to set appropriate Unix permissions
to the drivers directory for these users to have write rights in it
; write list = root, @lpadmin
A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others.
;[cdrom]
; comment = Samba server’s CD-ROM
; read only = yes
; locking = no
; path = /cdrom
; guest ok = yes
The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the
cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain
an entry like this:
/dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0
The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the
If you don’t want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD
is mounted on /cdrom
; preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom
; postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom
[Audiobooks 01]
comment = Audiobooks 01
path = /home/pooky2483/Audiobooks
; writeable = No
; browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
[Audiobooks 02]
comment = Audiobooks 02
path = /media/Drive2/Audiobook
; writeable = No
; browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
[TV Series]
comment = TV Series
path = /media/Drive3/TV Series
writeable = yes
; browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
[Films]
comment = Films
path = /media/Drive3/Films
; writeable = No
; browseable = yes
valid users = nobody, pooky2483
[Music-1]
comment = Music Folder
path = /media/Drive1/Music-1
; writeable = no
; browseable = yes
guest ok = yes[/spoiler]
Any particular reason you’re not telling me if the win7 workgroup is set to workgroup ?
Can you ping the IP address of each machine from the other ?
ping -c 5 <ip.address.of.pc>
No, none, just forgot and no, there is no ‘workgroup’
Can you ping the IP address of each machine from the other ? ping -c 5
They’re not ‘static’ IP’s. How do I set them as static IP’s?
The Win7 machine will either belong to a domain or workgroup … but I can’t remember where you find that out off the top of my head.
If you want to make samba configuration easier (GUI), install system-config-samba
sudo apt-get install system-config-samba
Then see here:
http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=10759.msg81991#msg81991
are you running a firewall on the Ubuntu box (such as gufw) ?
can you also post the contents of:
gedit /etc/nsswitch.conf
–
Mmm, if you “just” want to transfer files, SAMBA is quite a “heavy” solution.
You should find a ssh server installed on your Linux box (if not, apt-get install openssh-server), all you need to transfer files via SSH is a SSFTP or SSHFS client for Windows - of which there are a number lying around. In this instance there is zero configuration required at either end beyond entering an IP address, username, and password … 
I’ve already got the Samba GUI installed.
gedit /etc/nsswitch.conf
[spoiler]# /etc/nsswitch.conf
Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
If you have the glibc-doc-reference' and info’ packages installed, try:
`info libc “Name Service Switch”’ for information about this file.
passwd: compat
group: compat
shadow: compat
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
networks: files
protocols: db files
services: db files
ethers: db files
rpc: db files
netgroup: nis[/spoiler]
@MP
Yes, that’s all I want to do, transfer files between computers.
I’ll repeat … Are you running a firewall (such as gufw) in Ubuntu ?
Are you sure the Windows PC’s workgroup is set to WORKGROUP ?
As you found out earlier 
…Nope
Are you sure the Windows PC's workgroup is set to WORKGROUP ?
I had a look at some settings somewhere and I did see ‘workgroup’
what happens if in windows you enter
\<ip.adddress.of.ubuntu>
into the Windows file manager addresss bar and hit enter ?
I’ve forgot where we had got to …
Can you see the Win7 box from the Ubuntu one ?
Is the only problem seeing the Ubuntu box from the Win7 one ?
Nope, nothing happens, it comes up with ‘Windows cannot access <ip.adddress.of.ubuntu>’
I've forgot where we had got to ..Can you see the Win7 box from the Ubuntu one ?
Is the only problem seeing the Ubuntu box from the Win7 one ?
Nope, neither one can see the other!
What’s the IP of the windows and ubuntu boxes ?
192.168.1.5 Wired Ubuntu
192.168.1.2 Wireless Win7
They’re not static, how do I make them static?
What’s the output from:
ping -c 5 192.168.1.2
Here’s a tutorial for setting a static ip in windows 7 hope this helps
Graeme
Tried following it but it’s not working!!!
I just cant figure out how to do it???
I just cant figure out how to do it???
are you talking about in Windows or Ubuntu or both ?