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Are you talking about WSL? Mint isn't specified but Ubuntu is available: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 Since by default WSL doesn't run a desktop environment ( DE ) Ubuntu would be equivalent to the extent that Mint doesn't fork too far away from the Ubuntu standard. I s...

Where do I find (and delete) the credentials so I can link to the dir with the correct user? Open a terminal and run: seahorse There you should find the credentials for your NAS under Login > Network Password: seahorse.png Note I want to do this with nemo rather than just a samba connection If you ...

Take this for whatever it's worth: I recently set up MX Linux as a VBox guest and transferred my .mozilla/firefox folder to it's home directory. When I launched firefox I got the "This installation of firefox has a new profile ..." To correct this I reopened firefox and entered about:profiles You en...

I have studied what you have told me and my basic understanding is I am mounting my original shared directory to ABshare2 The shared directory is on a partition that is already mounted. Bindfs re-mounts a folder ABshare to ABshare2 with a "view" containing a set of permissions that is different fro...

Is "garage" by any chance the name of a local user on your Mint box? If it is the warning is just that - a warning that the way you set this up "others" ( meaning not "garage" ) will not be able to access the share. You can fix this if you want by making the guest network user appear to be you to sa...

Do an experiment: [1] Create another subdirectory under /data: sudo mkdir /data/ABshare2 [2] Install bindfs: sudo apt install bindfs [3] Temporarily remount /data/ABshare to /data/ABshare2 with a different set of permissions: sudo bindfs -o perms=0660:+X,force-group=ABshare,nonempty /data/ABshare /d...

CIFS is a virtual file system and will always mount with owner = root.

You can replace root with yourself if you want:

//192.168.1.100/docs/shared /media/mydocs cifs username=dogfood,password=MeepMeep123$$,uid=altair4

It's not an application that you "run". It's a protocol that you invoke either directly in a terminal: altair@gort:~$ ssh tester@vubsrv2004.local tester@vubsrv2004.local's password: Welcome to Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-45-generic x86_64) ... ... tester@vubsrv2004:~$ exit logout Connection ...

The parent folder /media/andy is owned by root which is why you got permission denied. ..... I hope it's okay to piggyback on this but I have a similar problem in that I want to make a drive sharable to my local network on a certain desktop but mint tells me that "The permissions for /media/ownerna...

Oops i posted in wrong area so here it is again Altair using the cifs method you have posted, with systemd automount. I have noticed that if the server is down then i no longer have access to local files on the pc. I cant even open home folder. i have seen this on 2 pc with mint20, after a clean in...

Open Explorer in Win10 and in the location bar enter - don't forget the .local part: Do you get a list of its shares?

This HowTo does not use a systemd automount. I do have another one where I do discuss it: viewtopic.php?f=42&t=326160

It's because of your mount point for the 5ef713d0-69ba-4706-be3a-6bb20631599e partition. This is a Linux permissions thing.

Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and right under the workgroup = WORKGROUP line add this one: Then restart smbd:

Please post the output of the following commands:

The link that CapraFan sent you to describes the difference in samba in Mint20 compared to earlier versions. It has two use cases: Connecting to a server that has disabled SMB1 and connecting to a server that can only use SMB1. Neither of those apply to MacOS. I don't even reference MacOS in that Ho...

They are present in the installation disk but they are not installed by default. In Cinnamon samba is also not installed but nemo-share is installed. In XFCE there is no equivalent to caja-share or nemo-share. There used to be many many moons ago but then one of the required libraries went to binary...

Do you even have samba installed?

I had to search your other posts to determine what desktop environment you use to answer this question. Please tell people you use Mint MATE when you ask a question. You will get a more tailored answer. It appears you are missing a package so install it: sudo apt install caja-share Then logoff and l...

If you are running Win10 the way Microsoft wants you to run it it will never be able to "discover" ( under Network in Explorer ) the Linux samba server. This is by design since Microsoft disabled SMB1 on the client side of Win10 and discovery ( by NetBIOS name ) is dependent on smb1. The Linux clien...

Win10 and Linux both use mDNS so you can connect that way: From WIn10: \\acermint.local Windows is smart enough to know that you want a SMB server at that location. Linux has to be told: So in the Location bar of your file manager: smb://win10-host-name.local EDIT : You can also do a cifs mount if t...