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I'm searching for a full description how to share a folder with Remmina. While there are already questions regarding the location of the folder (see here) or why sharing a folder does not work (see here), I could not find any questions regarding the steps necessary to share a folder with Remmina.

Mr.Epic Fail
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    It's simply a checkbox and folder selector in the configuration of the RDP connection. Do select a folder to which your user has rw access. Then from within your virtual machine (assumed to be Windows 10 in my example) to \tsclient\Public. I think the name changes depending on your shared folder, but I did not test. Most probably printer and file sharing needs to be active inside the VM.

    Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/j4n2A2D

    (Host: Debian 10 / VM: Windows 10 Enterprise -- It should be the same on Ubuntu)

     – jawtheshark Nov 09 '20 at 16:24
  • Thank you for adding this explanation! I wanted to add this question / answer here as a future reference for others, since it took me way too long to figure out how this works – Mr.Epic Fail Nov 09 '20 at 17:24

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On the client:

  • Make sure that Remmina is newer than 1.2, because of potential bugs related to sharing a folder (see this link)

    sudo apt-add-repository ppa:remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libfreerdp-plugins-standard remmina remmina-plugin-rdp

  • Start Remmina

  • Right click on the connection / click on edit, check "share folder" and select a folder on the client

  • Click on save

Potentially restart the client / server

On the server:

  • On Ubuntu the shared folder appears under /home/<username>/thinclient_drives/ (tested with Ubuntu 18.04). Note: In my case the folder name consisted only of the first 8 eight letters of the shared folder (e.g "ClientSh" instead of "ClientShare")
  • On Windows the folder appears under \\tsclient\<SHARED_FOLDER_NAME> (according to this answer)
Mr.Epic Fail
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    I tested this on Ubuntu 20.04, Remmina version 1.4.27. The folder name you input in the Share folder field should be the absolute path to an existing folder on the Ubuntu machine. – Hussein Hijazi Aug 05 '22 at 10:50
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    Newer version of Remmina shows the SHARED_FOLDER_NAME as a full path, e.g. \\tsclient\path_to_shared (separated with underscores) as this issue and commit. If you don't want the full path, go to the Advanced options and in Redirect directory option put your custom mapping, e.g: SharedName,/path/to/shared. It also supports sharing multiple folders, separated by a semicolon. – dhqvinh Aug 22 '22 at 23:36
  • I found dhqvinh's comment very helpful. I'd add: in Windows, go to the Network. Select the server named "tsclient". The shared directory \home\myName\sharedFolder is in \tsclient\_home_myName_sharedFolder – user1117791 May 19 '23 at 13:31
  • On Windows, open File Explorer --> click on "This PC" in the left-hand bar --> you'll see your drive under a "Redirected drives and folders" section at the bottom. If your shared folder path on your Linux client is /home/myusername/SHARED_w_Remmina, then on your Windows server to which you are connecting over RDP from your Remmina client, it will show up as This PC\_home_myusername_SHARED_w_Remmina on myusername-. – Gabriel Staples Jul 27 '23 at 17:20
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Adding to the main answer. Here's a screenshot of the window to edit a Remmina "Remote Connection Profile" on Ubuntu:

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I set the shared folder to /home/gabriel/SHARED_w_Remmina. That's the path where it shows up on Ubuntu.

Once I connect to Windows through a Remmina RDP connection, I can open Windows Explorer to see the share. Click on "This PC" in Windows Explorer. I see the C drive under "Devices and drives", and I see the _home_gabriel_SHARED_w_Remmina on gabriel- driver under "Redirected drives and folders". Click it and it goes to this path: This PC\_home_gabriel_SHARED_w_Remmina on gabriel-. If I open up a terminal in this Window, it shows up as this: \\tsclient\_home_gabriel_SHARED_w_Remmina.

Note that this location is physically stored on the Linux computer, which is where Remmina is installed for me. If I disconnect the RDP connection through Remmina, the files remain on the Linux computer.

See also:

  1. Where is the shared folder in Remmina?
Gabriel Staples
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