05-23-2017, 06:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-23-2017, 07:33 PM by Sprintrdriver.)
Hi.
I just had great success installing Linux Lite 3.4 32 bit on a old Toshiba Satelite laptop.
I want to be able to share folders between this computer and two computers that runs Windows 7 home premium. The large question is how do I make this happens - what steps to take? I'm still quite new to Linux, have installed Linux Mint, mate on another computer so I doesn't consider myself absolutely blank on Linux.
So far I've found this guide that I try to follow: https://www.howtogeek.com/176471/how-to-...and-linux/
But when it comes to where I tries to run the sudo mount.cifs command, the command display "could not resolve address for <computer name>: Unknown error>.
Is there something missing in that tutorial?
The smaller question I have, after experience some similar problems with Mint, but not quite same setup.
Q1: Is Samba installed and service running on Linux Lite out of the box, or do it need to be installed? I cannot find a command to quicly test wheter samba is installed/running or not - "rpm -q samba" doesn't work (it tells me that "rpm" needs to be installed.
Q2: The user profile on both Windows 10 computers has blank password. There is some in Mint forum saying that Linux may have problems with network shares that haven't password on the user. Is this the case?This guide doesn't mention any problems.
Q3: I've also read that there might be problems when Windows computers have dynamic IP. Is that true?
Thanks in advance
[edit]
So I found this article:
https://superuser.com/questions/17458/sm...es-address
It says I need to install winbind, here we go [c]sudo apt-get install winbind[/c]
I just had great success installing Linux Lite 3.4 32 bit on a old Toshiba Satelite laptop.
I want to be able to share folders between this computer and two computers that runs Windows 7 home premium. The large question is how do I make this happens - what steps to take? I'm still quite new to Linux, have installed Linux Mint, mate on another computer so I doesn't consider myself absolutely blank on Linux.
So far I've found this guide that I try to follow: https://www.howtogeek.com/176471/how-to-...and-linux/
But when it comes to where I tries to run the sudo mount.cifs command, the command display "could not resolve address for <computer name>: Unknown error>.
Is there something missing in that tutorial?
The smaller question I have, after experience some similar problems with Mint, but not quite same setup.
Q1: Is Samba installed and service running on Linux Lite out of the box, or do it need to be installed? I cannot find a command to quicly test wheter samba is installed/running or not - "rpm -q samba" doesn't work (it tells me that "rpm" needs to be installed.
Q2: The user profile on both Windows 10 computers has blank password. There is some in Mint forum saying that Linux may have problems with network shares that haven't password on the user. Is this the case?This guide doesn't mention any problems.
Q3: I've also read that there might be problems when Windows computers have dynamic IP. Is that true?
Thanks in advance
[edit]
So I found this article:
https://superuser.com/questions/17458/sm...es-address
It says I need to install winbind, here we go [c]sudo apt-get install winbind[/c]
I won't let an old, but fully functional computer die just because some company tell me that they won't make no more security updates to their OS. Thanks Linux 
