(solved)photo file sharing

[manny433]

Hello
I have two computers both running Linux MInt(MInt 8 and 9) in home network and would like to learn how to share files(photos) between both pcs.Thanks.

[altair4]

Open Nautilus
Right Click on /home/your_user_name/Pictures
Select "Sharing Options"
Select "Share this folder", "Allow other people to write..", and "Guest access"
Select "Create share"
It will ask you if you want it to modify permissions - you do.
Done

Now go to the other machine, open Nautilus > Network and see if you can find the "pictures" share.

[grimdestripador]

1) Have the same username on both computers.
2) Choose NFS / Samba / or SSH for sharing.

With NFS (Unix Network File System) you can share a directory by right clicking your "photos" folder in your home directory, choosing sharing, and adding the share. Same goes for samba (windows sharing), but it might need to install some packages.

On the othercomputer, look up mounting NFS shares into your /etc/fstab file.

Or just use ssh to copy the entire directory,
(you must sudo apt-get install openssh-server)

copy from a remote machine to my machine:
scp user@192.168.1.100:/home/remote_user/Desktop/file.txt /home/me/Desktop/file.txt

copy from my machine to a remote machine:
scp /home/me/Desktop/file.txt user@192.168.1.100:/home/remote_user/Desktop/file.txt

copy all file*.txt from a remote machine to my machine (file01.txt, file02.txt, etc.; note the quotation marks:
scp "user@192.168.1.100:/home/remote_user/Desktop/file*.txt" /home/me/Desktop/file.txt

copy a directory from a remote machien to my machine:
scp -r user@192.168.1.100:/home/remote_user/Desktop/files /home/me/Desktop/.

[altair4]

1) Have the same username on both computers.

That's not a requirement for samba. In fact I would recommend the opposite.

[manny433]

Open Nautilus
Right Click on /home/your_user_name/Pictures
Select "Sharing Options"
Select "Share this folder", "Allow other people to write..", and "Guest access"
Select "Create share"
It will ask you if you want it to modify permissions - you do.
Done

Now go to the other machine, open Nautilus > Network and see if you can find the "pictures" share.

In network all i see is "Windows Network" icon.

[altair4]

In network all i see is "Windows Network" icon.

And what error message do you get when you double click the "Windows Network" icon?

[Pilosopong Tasyo]

Once you establish a shared folder from the server, you could just use the smb:// notation in Nautilus' location bar to directly open the folder from the client computer.

For example:

• Server name = manny433desktop
  Shared folder = Pictures

On the client computer, put this in Nautilus' location bar and hit enter:

• smb://manny433desktop/Pictures

[altair4]

The previous post reminded me of one potential problem.

The Ubuntu installer has a bad habit of creating by default an internal machine name based on your login user name.

Also by default Samba will use that internal machine name as the netbios name that it broadcasts to the network.

In this case if your login username is manny433, then your netbios name would be manny433-desktop which would render your machine invisible to the network because it's longer that 15 characters. ( It's that extra dash that pushes it over the edge )

There's an easy way to fix this in samba itself it this is the issue.

[Pilosopong Tasyo]

There's an easy way to fix this in samba itself it this is the issue.

Is the easy fix shortening the machine name in the /etc/hostname file?

[altair4]

There's an easy way to fix this in samba itself it this is the issue.

Is the easy fix shortening the machine name in the /etc/hostname file?

You know there's a right way to do this and a wrong way to do this and I can never remember what it is. There are two files you can edit and if you choose the wrong one you won't be able to use gksu or sudo anymore.

I avoid the issue entirely and use smb.conf itself to change the name that appears on the network. Just add the following line to the [global] section of smb.conf:

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netbios name = something_15_characters_or_less

Then restart samba:

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sudo service smbd restart