Share nc_files folder

I recall that one used to be able to share the nc_files folder from the file manager in linux. That seems to not be available anymore. What is the easies way to share the nc_file folder with widows users?
 

The easiest way? Probably using a USB stick.

Otherwise, for true network sharing, you would use samba. If your distro/desktop environment doesn't have built-in support for this, you'd have to set it up manually. See e.g. this .

You could also use an ssh client on your Windows machine to transfer files to and from your linux computer, but it wouldn't be "sharing" the folder really, in that your couldn't view it in the Windows file manager or open/edit files in the folder on the Windows computer.

Another option could be sshfs, if you can find a Windows client for it. This might be the easiest solution actually.

I use a Rockstor server on the network and SAMBA to exchange files.
Using Mint 21 helps with the network config.

arvidb wrote:

The easiest way? Probably using a USB stick.

Otherwise, for true network sharing, you would use samba. If your distro/desktop environment doesn't have built-in support for this, you'd have to set it up manually. See e.g. this.

The USB stick doesn't show up when you want to load a nc file under plasmac so I cannot lock the operators out of the linux area. This is very dangerous seeing that they are not computer skilled let alone linux skilled.
 

andypugh wrote:

I use SAMBA (and Avahi / Bonjour) and that means I can save G-code direct from Fusion on the Mac into the nc_files folders of the machine tools.

That is exactly what is need to do. I have been trying all sorts but not being very successful so far. The night is young still.

I have both those installed. And I tried to configure samba via webmin and by setting up the smb.conf file. Samba is a bit of black magic I think.