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altair4
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Re: Home Network.

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Does the win7 in mike-win7r-hp.local mean it's running Windows 7?
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Re: Home Network.

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mikeflan Same here, wants password, none I have work
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Re: Home Network.

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altair4 wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 2:15 pm Does the win7 in mike-win7r-hp.local mean it's running Windows 7?
That would be logical, but apparently it has been upgraded to win10. I checked and I am sure of that.
mikeflan Same here, wants password, none I have work
Yeah, I have 3 network passwords over the years and I know which one is the most recent. None of them work.

I am in pretty good shape as it stands right now, so I'm not too terribly worried about it. It's amazing that the decades keep rolling by and they STILL don't have network setup all lined out.
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Re: Home Network.

Post by altair4 »

mikeflan wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 3:38 pm It's amazing that the decades keep rolling by and they STILL don't have network setup all lined out.
I don't know why I do this since you really shouldn't be getting Windows advice on a Linux forum but one again I will demonstrate what I did to create a new shared folder on Windows 10 and How I access it.

I created a new folder at C:\Shared2.

Then I created the share by Right Click Shared2 in explorer > Give Access To > Specific People > smbuser > Add > Permissions Level set to Read / Write.

I can check to see if what I thought I did was in fact what I really did by invoking Power Shell > Run as Administrator:
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Here I check to see if the share permissions and user accessibility are set correctly:

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> net share Shared2
Share name Shared2
Path C:\Shared2
Remark
Maximum users No limit
Users smbuser
Caching Manual caching of documents
Permission BUILTIN\Administrators, FULL
Everyone, FULL

The command completed successfully.

Here I check to see if the folder permissions allow the user smbuser write access - and they do:

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> icacls Shared2
Shared2: The system cannot find the file specified.
Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> icacls c:\Shared2
c:\Shared2 VWIN1064\altair:(OI)(CI)(F)
VWIN1064\smbuser:(OI)(CI)(F)
BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(F)
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(F)

Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>
And here I connect to that share using smbuser's Windows username and password from Mint20 Cinnamon:

Passing Credentials:
MintCredentialsPrompt.png
Adding a file after connection made:
MintAddFile.png
Look folks I'm really not trying to be a male sex organ about this but I sincerely and truly cannot reproduce your symptoms.
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Re: Home Network.

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Thank you. It will be a while until I try this again. My wife just got home and I don't mess with her computer too much when she is here.
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Re: Home Network.

Post by Marie SWE »

This thread is a bit messy. :mrgreen:
You all have a thread in here about setting up a Samba network.. :wink:
Thread: Samba and Mint20
viewtopic.php?f=42&t=322404

and then you have the thread: Problem after samba update
viewtopic.php?f=52&t=371366

and one thread about setting up Samba network drive in Fstab: [Solved] Setting up a SAMBA share in /etc/fstab to auto mount automatically
viewtopic.php?f=52&t=375505

But it seems as there isn't a step by step guide to set up a Linux-Windows network on this forum.
Perhaps you should make one. 8)
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