Gcode sharing folder ( Debian / Windows 7)

John,

Thanks, thats exactly what I've done and I get an empty folder
fstab says: Actually, I think its a permissions issue as media/ds is owned by root. So now I just have to work out how to give permissions to everybody for the share.

On my samba server I have a share such as:

[Share]
comment = Public Share
path = /path/to/share
browsable = yes
guest ok = yes
force group = somebody
writable = yes
create mask = 0755

Ok for home use but not totally secure

For that folder the owner and group are somebody somebody permissions are 42775 (there was a reason for that)

I can log in with any valid samba user name and all files are owned by somebody

There was an issue when I upgrade from slackware 10.2 to 14.2 with the config but I think it was with the force owner parameter, which I don't use now. It was a while ago.

Hi

Thanks ozzyrob for the input. Reading about Samba Server helped some.

This is all way over my head as we dive deep into Linux land. Google was my friend here as I blindly followed instructions. There seem to be about a millon options and combinations of option that can be needed to make this work if you do the man pages for mount and mount.cifs, which was already installed on my system from my original install of LDME2 Cinnamon 64bit.

I did manage to make mine work even after reboot. I seems that even though the character coding files are installed the option that specified the character coding is what caused my problem, error 79, originally.

I had to create a directory for the link to be in.

So I had to install winbind, Look it up on line, to maybe read the WINS info on my home workgroup? Then I restarted my system after shutting it down.

I had to create a file in my home directory .smbcredentails that contains two lines for each user:
user=jd
password=XXXXXXX

Then I added the following line as a single line to the /etc/fstab file:

//192.168.1.100/public /media/mybook cifs credentials=/home/jd/.smbcredentials,gid=jd,uid=jd,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

Your actual settings will be for your system.

Then I did this:

sudo mount -a

When this ran it put shortcut on my desktop (LMDE2 Cinnamon) and had the linked device files in the directory I created.

I have shut down my system and restarted it several times and the shortcut and files are still there.

John

I had the same question on installing Dropbox, I did a search and found this thread.

An answer to installing Dropbox seemed to get lost in all the other options.

So is Dropbox not an option in LCNC?
(What a simple way to share files, I have numerous machines with MS OS and Linux sharing via Dropbox, but not LCNC).

All the acronyms and techy mumbo jumbo leads me to believe sharing two PC's one with LinuxCNC the other with Win7 is a long drawn out pain in the .....!
Especially if you just 'use' computers as opposed to being a computer scientist (or are someone with way more time on their hands than I have).

Have you tried searching google with the phrase:

dropbox debian wheezy

Sorry if this post contains too much techno mumbo jumbo

As mentioned before winscp is a very good option. ssh runs out the box on debian.

Mumbo jumbo works for ya if you speak it, it just looks like Latin to me.

Who do you use for a "Host", when on WinSCP?