Daniel, thank you very much. I was a while since i had setup samba storages. Well didn't have any windows machines (long story) and only linux. And we all know, linux is a breeze to setup network connections. Before watching you video, i was changing this and that and going crazy too! But having watched you video i realize a few things a) You didn't touch the smb.conf that much compared to what i did. I had a backup copy of the original, so i used that as my smb.conf b) i added the shares. You didn't go into too much detail, which i liked. It worked! c) You and you only, included the "sudo smbpasswd -a $user". I had completely forgot it until watching your video. d) you mentioned to use another account, especially with windows. I did as you said. Result it worked. I have detailed a step by step process for the next time i forget. Daniel, Thank You very much for your help!! 👍👍👍👍
I've been using Debian as my primary computer for years and use samba to share between linux machines but had totally forgotten how to set up Windows to access samba shares. Found all sorts of advice out there involving changing registry, using power tools to enable SMB, etc but none of those worked for me. Then I happened across your video saw that all I had to do to get Windows 10 to connect to my already existing (and otherwise working) samba share was to map a network drive to it. So easy and some would say obvious, once you know that, but I was at my wit's end until you pointed it out :). Thanks for sharing!
Great video, I would imagine a lot of viewers try to copy the steps as they watch your presentation, and then find out the connection to the winshare won't connect and may get a bit frustrated, but you did mention the firewall towards the end. It might be helpful to mention this right away to avoid this frustration of those who enabled ufw.
It was useful man, especially the smbpasswd part, I had no idea that is a thing, well maybe next time I can read the Samba documentation, but well. Thanks'!!!
needed some help with samba and you have done that, should have called the video samba share help and hating on windows haha:) next time just click the windows button and type control panel you get there so much quicker.
It has been a long time since I've used Samba. I remember using it back in university in the late 90s with our house network, so all the roommates could access the shared drives on our Linux "server", and I remember it being a bit of black magic to configure. I've tried to avoid it since then, as I run Linux primarily for my own machines and NFS tended to offer far superior performance.
I used to manage samba in the 90s and 00s. Samba was also the windows domain controller. Worked so very well. The firewall part I had to do with ipchains, nice to see samba does this now. or did it always do this, and I just didn't know?
Hi MarkUK The firewall part I added just because my colleague had a problem with connection. Not really sure what the underlying tech is, could be ipchain still. Samba has no firewall rule functionality to my knowledge. Thank you for watching my videos. Best regards Daniel
Awesome tutorial i almost got it working on Windows 11 but i get this error after adding my username and password: The drive could not be mapped because no network was found. if you could guide me on why i get the error it would be awesome. Not sure the issue is on my Linux machine or on my Windows machine. Thanks.
Hi Marcel. Really hard to say without debugging, and sadly the error message doesn't say much. I would look if you get any information in the log files on Linux. All files are located in /var/log if you are using a manual install. I think there is a similar place in windows for logging where you can look as well. But if it still doesn't work restart and see if you missed any step. I hope this helps. Thank you for watching my videos. Best regards Daniel
As for the right click buttons being hidden behind more options, this bothers me too. But I think its because as we add more and more, it gets confusing and rejectable by new users. Which we arent. To prevent the industry from dying it needs to be dumbed down for people. Just like back in the day, programmers had to use assembly or worse machine language. This was seriously complicated and most could not do it, but for those who could, it allowed them to utilize the available processing power in a more efficient manner. Look at rollercoaster tycoon development for instance, far beyond other games of the same size from the same time. Becauee they used a lower level language. Software companies had to do something to bring technology development to more hands, so on come higher level languages. The reason i bring all of that up, is because thats how the users feel with so many confusing options
Great tutorial. It worked for me! I spent an hour trying out trying other explanations, including asking Google Gemini
Daniel, thank you very much. I was a while since i had setup samba storages. Well didn't have any windows machines (long story) and only linux. And we all know, linux is a breeze to setup network connections. Before watching you video, i was changing this and that and going crazy too! But having watched you video i realize a few things
a) You didn't touch the smb.conf that much compared to what i did. I had a backup copy of the original, so i used that as my smb.conf
b) i added the shares. You didn't go into too much detail, which i liked. It worked!
c) You and you only, included the "sudo smbpasswd -a $user". I had completely forgot it until watching your video.
d) you mentioned to use another account, especially with windows. I did as you said.
Result it worked. I have detailed a step by step process for the next time i forget.
Daniel, Thank You very much for your help!! 👍👍👍👍
I've been using Debian as my primary computer for years and use samba to share between linux machines but had totally forgotten how to set up Windows to access samba shares. Found all sorts of advice out there involving changing registry, using power tools to enable SMB, etc but none of those worked for me. Then I happened across your video saw that all I had to do to get Windows 10 to connect to my already existing (and otherwise working) samba share was to map a network drive to it. So easy and some would say obvious, once you know that, but I was at my wit's end until you pointed it out :). Thanks for sharing!
Same, had it working on all my Linux machines but could not figure out why I could not connect to it in windows....
Great video, I would imagine a lot of viewers try to copy the steps as they watch your presentation, and then find out the connection to the winshare won't connect and may get a bit frustrated, but you did mention the firewall towards the end. It might be helpful to mention this right away to avoid this frustration of those who enabled ufw.
It was useful man, especially the smbpasswd part, I had no idea that is a thing, well maybe next time I can read the Samba documentation, but well. Thanks'!!!
THANKS
THANKYOU SO MUCHHH
You didn't mention you need a matching unix user for smbpasswd to work
needed some help with samba and you have done that, should have called the video samba share help and hating on windows haha:) next time just click the windows button and type control panel you get there so much quicker.
thanks a lot!
Thanks a lot! Your video saved me) I did it according to different guides, but Windows 11 did not see the folder.
It has been a long time since I've used Samba. I remember using it back in university in the late 90s with our house network, so all the roommates could access the shared drives on our Linux "server", and I remember it being a bit of black magic to configure. I've tried to avoid it since then, as I run Linux primarily for my own machines and NFS tended to offer far superior performance.
I used to manage samba in the 90s and 00s. Samba was also the windows domain controller. Worked so very well.
The firewall part I had to do with ipchains, nice to see samba does this now. or did it always do this, and I just didn't know?
Hi MarkUK
The firewall part I added just because my colleague had a problem with connection.
Not really sure what the underlying tech is, could be ipchain still. Samba has no firewall rule functionality to my knowledge.
Thank you for watching my videos.
Best regards
Daniel
@@DanielPersson Thanks. How about a video on using that latest version of Samba as a domain controller for Win 10 & 11?
Hi MarkUK
Great suggestion. Never tried it myself. I know about the general feature but never configured it.
Best regards
Daniel
Awesome tutorial i almost got it working on Windows 11 but i get this error after adding my username and password: The drive could not be mapped because no network was found. if you could guide me on why i get the error it would be awesome. Not sure the issue is on my Linux machine or on my Windows machine. Thanks.
Hi Marcel.
Really hard to say without debugging, and sadly the error message doesn't say much. I would look if you get any information in the log files on Linux. All files are located in /var/log if you are using a manual install. I think there is a similar place in windows for logging where you can look as well. But if it still doesn't work restart and see if you missed any step.
I hope this helps. Thank you for watching my videos.
Best regards
Daniel
Good luck getting it to work with domain authentication.
It's an ugly concept to live without a firewall. Where are ports list for firewall?!
As for the right click buttons being hidden behind more options, this bothers me too. But I think its because as we add more and more, it gets confusing and rejectable by new users. Which we arent. To prevent the industry from dying it needs to be dumbed down for people. Just like back in the day, programmers had to use assembly or worse machine language. This was seriously complicated and most could not do it, but for those who could, it allowed them to utilize the available processing power in a more efficient manner. Look at rollercoaster tycoon development for instance, far beyond other games of the same size from the same time. Becauee they used a lower level language. Software companies had to do something to bring technology development to more hands, so on come higher level languages.
The reason i bring all of that up, is because thats how the users feel with so many confusing options