Mepis box as file server in XP Pro Network
I'm a teacher in a rural Montana school. Also I'm a total nOOb to Linux. Here is what I want to do, I want to set up folders on my mepis box for kids to save their work in, work done on their XP Pro machines.
Here's what I"ve done.
-Installed Mepis 6.0
-Made sure that it and the XP machine have the same workgroup name.
-I can *see* the folders from the XP machine.
-I cannot Save anything in the Mepis folders from the XP machine.
I'd appreciate it if anyone could point me to some step by step directions.
Joe Fisher
Teacher, K-8
Marion, MT
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Can't share MEPIS folder.
Welcome to MEPIS! Check the permissions on the folder, if the owner is root, make sure that *all* have read and write permissions, the same goes for a users folder that you need to read and write to. May be someone with more experience with permissions can give a better answer, but this has worked for me.
regards,
Bad Dog
SimplyMEPIS 6.0 - kernel 2.6.15-26-686-SMP - KDE 3.5.3
I had this kind of problem,
I had this kind of problem, too. My solution:
1. log in MEPIS as root; just check that MEPIS firewall has been desactivated;
2. go to your settings panel, look at 'Internet' and then 'File sharing' (or something like that; I am not in front of my MEPIS-machine now, sorry);
3. choose the simple sharing option; it will give your users root permissions on your shared, e.g. they can then read and write on the shared (to be sure, just check that these permissions are available in settings panel/Internet/Samba; it should be).
This is a solution at a very low security level, however; it would be better to set users and affiliated permissions in the samba configuration file (/etc/samba/smb.conf); but if you have a little network, and if you know what your users will do and not do, then it works well without too much tweaking.
yours
zu