thanks, but running into more problems, it just seems there are lots of things to go wrong really (if you dont know what you're doing) and for a fileserver you want it to be quite stable and easy to run, i realised that after my brother turned it off it had dismounted the extra hard disk and so that probably didnt help and so now i dont know what settings are stored where heh.

might have a bash and see if i can get it running with windoze

Hello all,

I relatively new to linux and still feeling my way around, so apologies in advance for any stupitidy on my part ;)

Have been following Glider's excellent guide to setting up a server with Xubuntu, and got to the end of part 4 (installing samba) & attempted '\\my IP add\homes' on my XP desktop; I get the user/password box come up but any attempt to login first just resets the login box and then gives me this error:

'Windows cannot find '\\(ip add)\homes'.

I don't know if this is at all relevant, but both machines are connected to the same router (with different IP addresses).

Thanks in advance for any help folks.

Hey! i have done alle this and it worked perfect from my windows based computer, but now i wanna go all (linux) and i installed another linux on a second comp, but i dont seem to find the server, is there anyone who can give me a dummy tutorial on this?


Thanx A-Maze

For *nix to *nix is usually better to use NFS its not really any more complicated and there are plenty of good guides on the net.

If you really want to use samba your distro might have a gui based "network browser" other wise mounting smb (samba) can some times be a bit tricky.

If i were you i'd make a new thread in the software section as you'll get more views this thread is a couple of years old and doesn't many foot falls. Tell people your running a glider sever and detail what distro your using for the client box.

I know I'm coming into this thread late, but thanks for the awsome guide. As a linux newbie, my only wish is:
Instead of going on to a third How To, *Please* update and correct the first one! It's hell having to go through 580 comments just to find out why things aren't working as they are supposed to. I'm using Xubuntu 9.04. As it is, I've got most things working but just can't seem to get phpmyadmin to install properly--I keep getting "Error installing database"

Can anyone tell me what I have to do? TIA

Hi i'm new to ubuntu and i need help!
i followed the article step by step and builded the server and it works fine :)

i need help
the HDD in the server is small (13GB) so i added an external HDD it works fine on ubuntu
but how do i link it so i can accses it like i can accses the (\\(ip)\homes) on the other computers?
i dont know how to do it pls help.

do i edit smb.conf if so what do i write?
thnax

Nevermind i have done it :D

Need Help too.

How can you do that ?

Can you update this article or post a new for Windows Vista & Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. I tried your way & more than half of it doesn't work, I'm assuming it's because its outdated.

Can anyone verify that this works on 11.04 of Xubuntu. When I try to restart the server in "File Sharing", i get an error that the file doesn't exist. I've re-downloaded the Sambe file and re-installed it twice, to no avail.