Linux networking (Samba issues)

[shookvt2023]

I really want to switch to Mint and leave windows forever. However, I have a small home network mainly to share media between computers. I have tried and tried but cannot get Linux to share a drive over the network to other Linux computers. I don't understand why Linux makes this so hard. I have downloaded and installed Samba and set up a Samba share but still no luck. Any help would be appreciated.

[RowlandP]

I really want to switch to Mint and leave windows forever. However, I have a small home network mainly to share media between computers. I have tried and tried but cannot get Linux to share a drive over the network to other Linux computers. I don't understand why Linux makes this so hard. I have downloaded and installed Samba and set up a Samba share but still no luck. Any help would be appreciated.

It will definitely help if you told us how you have configured Samba, the output of:

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testparm -s

Will help.

[altair4]

Only because you didn't tell us:

What version of Mint you are using
How you shared the folder
What versions of the OS you are using on the clients
And also because you seem to be in a different time zone you might want to post the output of at least these commands in addition to the one in the previous post:

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net usershare info --long

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smbd -V