Configure Folder Sharing

Question

I am trying to share a folder in Ubuntu 16.04 so I can access it on a Windows XP machine. I am receiving this error message:

'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot share path /media/rpiggott/Users/Users/Ron Piggott/Documents/Wendy Bonter/Car Insurance Claim as we are restricted to only sharing directories we own.
Ask the administrator to add the line "usershare owner only = false" 
to the [global] section of the smb.conf to allow this.

I don't know where smb.conf lives. I opened up terminal and gave the command

sudo find ~/ -type f -name "smb.conf"

There are no results.

Other pertinent details:

I was prompted to install 'share' when I clicked on the 'share folder' tab. I did so. Then I rebooted.

Where is this file? Where I am to create it so I may follow the instruction?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 04 '16 at 15:29

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It lives in:

/etc/samba/smb.conf

You can edit it with:

sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

answered May 04 '16 at 15:29

You'reAGitForNotUsingGit

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I've setup the share. But it isn't showing on the Windows XP machine. Are there more steps that need completing? – Ron Piggott May 04 '16 at 15:34
@RonPiggott - You should post that as an different question. – You'reAGitForNotUsingGit May 04 '16 at 15:37

Configure Folder Sharing

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