Questions about sharing/shared folders in a system, network, virtual devices, cloud, etc.
Questions tagged [shared-folders]
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How can I see a list of all my shared folders?
Sometimes I find directories that I left shared a long time ago but forgot to un-share. Is there a way to see a list of all my shared folders so I can remove folders that I no longer need to be shared? I'm using Maverick Meerkat.
sashoalm
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"Unable to mount location. Failed to mount Windows share" error when trying to share folders
I have two Ubuntu machines both on 11.10
I want to share folders from one to the other.
If, on the server machine, (in Nautilus) I right click on the folders and click Properties> Share > Share this folder > Create share.
Then on the client I'm…
powlo
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File sharing on secondary drive
I have a bunch of files I want to share on my second internal drive.
I have file sharing off the primary (system) drive working file - Created a samba share user, and I can right-click on the folders I want to share and turn on sharing and it…
Ari B. Friedman
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Getting an error wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on SharedFolder
have installed Ubuntu 17.04 as guest OS in Virtual box and my base OS is widnows 10 . I am relatively new to Ubuntu OS
When I am trying to share the files between Host OS to guest OS I did the following things:
I set the Shared folders and the given…
Diako
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Accesing a folder shared by Ubuntu 11.10 laptop by Ubuntu 11.10 PC does not work
I have a desktop PC and a notebook in the same network. Each of them is running Ubuntu 11.10. I shared a folder on my notebook which I somehow can not access by my PC.
Here is what I did so far:
On the notebook I right clicked on my home folder and…
Aufwind
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How to share data between two computers?
Is there a way to share/transfer files between two different computers not on same network using samba or any other tool.
Eg. Sharing a movie with a friend.
Gaurav Dighe
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How to setup a Shared Folder on Mythbuntu without using SAMBA?
We don't have Windows at home, so don't use SAMBA. Can NFS be used natively between Ubuntu and Mythbuntu machines?
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When I use "Connect to Server", how can it remember the IP address?
I don't want to type in the IP address every single time. Can it just save them to a list or something?
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Share folder between two ubuntu machines, one of them doesn't have internet connection
I wondered if i could share folders between two ubuntu machines, even if one of them doesn't have Internet connection.
In fact, i searched all day long for a way to do that, but all i found is that i should install SAMBA or openssh, but i actually…
Sam
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Shared folder not accessible
Ubuntu 14.04. Two harddrives. I have created a folder on the slave drive and made it a shared folder using Nautilus. I can see the folder from another computer, but I can't see what's in it. Access denied. Why? I have folders on my primary drive…
Marwi
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How can I share a folder between Ubuntu 13.10 as host OS and Windows 8.1 as guest in VirtualBox?
I installed Windows 8.1 Pro as guest OS in VirtualBox. I want to share a folder between Ubuntu 13.10 as my host OS and guest OS for file transfer between them. How can I do that?
Thanks
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Sharing folders between more than two computer
I have 4 computer which ubbuntu 13.10 installed on all of them. I need to make a share folder between all to add and remove and change the contents synchronously via the internet. So please tell me how can i do that. I am new in networking issues…
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Can i create a shared folder between ubuntu 13.10 and windows 8.1
I have a dual boot system with ubuntu 13.10 and windows 8.1. At times i can access windows file from ubuntu but not ubuntu files from windows. is there an option to create a shared folder so that i can put the common files in it and access from both…
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Share a NTFS folder with another Ubuntu user
Ubuntu 13.10/W7 dual boot
I have a large folder of photos My Pictures on a separate NTFS partition called Data which I can access from Windows & Ubuntu. I want to make this folder accessible as read-only from my wife's Ubuntu user account. I've…
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how to map network drive
i need to if it's possible to map a network drive through Ubuntu and make it remain in MY COMP even if restarted or logged off "as in windows we map network drive through the following options (profile home folder in active directory, or by running…
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