Comments on: How to Share File between Ubuntu and Windows 10?

By: Arantxa

Arantxa — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 15:18:17 +0000

Hello Shais,
Have you ever dealt with a gray cross in every corner of a file/directory’s icon in windows? Yesterday my Ubuntu 20.04 folder named “Público” and any of its files could be accessed by any of my Windows 8.1 machines. Today I moved some extra files/folders to “Público” and now they cannot be accessed. The message error is: “invalid identifier”. With the previous ones, nothing changed and they are still available. I tried to clean it by “reinitialize the cache of offline files” using a support forum from Microsoft: “REG ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Csc\Parameters /v FormatDatabase /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f”
But nothing worked. I would appreciate some help.

By: Eddie McGlone

Eddie McGlone — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 12:46:29 +0000

Thank you. I’ve been chasing around trying different solutions without having much luck when I came across your tutorial. Nowhere else mentioned the need to create a samba user account – that’s what made the difference.

By: Shais

Shais — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:01:13 +0000

In reply to Doc Mckaig. 137 Years ago! Thanks for the feedback.

By: Doc Mckaig

Doc Mckaig — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 22:15:49 +0000

thank you, 137 years ago when I was doing acoustic research a friend set up samba for me between file servers and main computer so I knew what was possible…never could have done it myself without your excellent tutorial.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 20:01:07 +0000

will this work continuously? thinking that the ip address dynamically changes…

By: Khoa

Khoa — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 11:06:53 +0000

Thank Bro!! It worked perfectly!!

By: Bill Maxwell

Bill Maxwell — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 03:14:34 +0000

I found the problem. Zorin’s Firewall was blocking incoming connections. Set it to allow and all is working now. I can access Zorin/s Documents Folder from Windows 10 and visa versa.

By: Bill Maxwell

Bill Maxwell — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 02:09:22 +0000

I followed the Steps exactly as shown and get Network not found. I can Ping both ways between Windows 10 and Ubuntu.

By: Henry Law

Henry Law — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 08:14:55 +0000

The problem was at the client end – Nautilus.

The easiest work around it to use Dolphin and select “Connect to server”, then type in the IP address of the server in the form
smb://{ip-address-of-server}

(without the curly brackets)

You get the server IP address from typing ifconfig in a terminal.

By: Henry Law

Henry Law — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 23:28:58 +0000

Client computer also running Ubuntu sees nothing. testparm on the host shows no change to smb.conf

By: Shais

Shais — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 16:16:20 +0000

In reply to Henry Law. Please if you can share the exact error when you connect to Windows. It helps us to know, what the issue is about?