Gcode sharing folder ( Debian / Windows 7)

Have you rechecked the permissions on the windows side ?
The windows user that has permissions to the folder is the one you are using to connect with ? This maybe different to the user you are logged in with at your linux machine.
You'll have to give more verbose descriptions of the errors you are getting.

Have a look at any log files contained here:
/var/log/samba/

This log file:
/var/log/syslog

Only look at the files that have a timestamp close to the time you were trying to connect. It will also help to know which versions of windows you are trying to connect to.

Windows side

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I have checked and rechecked permission on the Windows side and it appears I have that set correctly.
(Oh, it's Windows 7 Pro).

Linux side

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I think I'm logged in correctly, all I get for an error message when I try to open the shared folder on the Win machine from the Linux machine is:

"Failed to open file XXXXX"
Failed to mount Windows share.

This could be a tell, I don't have permission to access var/log/samba, it has the red X next to it.
I used to know how to know how to change permissions but I don't recall how to do it now.

/var/log/syslog doesn't exist, (that could be telling me something as well).

Quit the adventure I must say, thanks for hanging in there with all your help.

I found /var/log/syslog, it too requires permission which I don't have.
I'll try to do a search on how to change that.

Also, I'm not following what this means:

mkdir: invalid option -- 'o'

I'm not sure this is progress or not.
Now the error message says:

"Failed to open directory"
Permission denied.

I assume I'm back to Windows. (Man there are a lot of places to screw-up on Windows).

I haven't any idea how I did it, but it works now, I can access the shared folder on the Win PC from LCNC.

Last question, when I go to load an .ngc file from within LCNC were do I find the network or shared folder?
That file path is eluding me.

Thanks

Open a terminal and type
mount

Hopefully there will be an entry that starts with gvfsd-fuse on

If you cd into the directory and run ls

you hopefully with get an entry starting with smb-share:

eg I mount a share called movies02 on a server called subsonic and the entry is

smb-share:server=subsonic,share=movies02

so the full path would be (in my case)

/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=subsonic,share=movies02/

This thread post discusses mount via fstab (you can choose where to mount the folder)

The second answer here discusses doing the same thing but using a file to store username & password, I would guess the domain entry could be left off.

If I had a windows 7 machine at home I could nail a full solution for you.

Here is what mount yelled:

allen@CNC:~$ mount
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=213733,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=335696k,mode=755)
/dev/disk/by-uuid/100f21bf-db51-49d3-b79f-e113983e3fa8 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1313640k)
rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw,relatime)
allen@CNC:~$

I didn't see anything here with gvfsd-fuse , I will look at those other answers you mentioned

Thanks again

OK

First you want to

sudo apt-get install gvfs-fuse
sudo adduser your-user-name fuse

Then logout and log back in and mount your share

The folder should then be in /home/your-user-name/.gvfs

your-user-name refers to your Linuxcnc login, which can be found by typing whoami at a terminal.

Sorry about the info before hand I was using Linux Mint and wrongly assumed things would be similar. I did the above after booting with the linuxcnc iso in a virtual machine and mounting a share on a linux samba server. The location of the mount should be the same.