I have installed caja share. But it does not appear in any menu that I can find, so am assuming it is not working. Installed system-config-samba. But, it refused to even open. Found out a fix by typing the following in a terminal:
sudo touch /etc/libuser.conf
The above got the GUI to open and so I made a samba share. But, following this, after going to network and trying to open the folder, it refused to open
Following which, I did my usual trick, when this happens (and it used to happen a LOT in linux) and went into samba.conf and added the following line at the bottom of a given samba entry:
force user = stephen
Thus:
[Store1]
path = /media/stephen/Store1
writeable = yes
; browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
force user = stephen
Still no go. I also got this pop up:
So, Samba not working and no idea why. Anybody any ideas? Lack of network functionality used to be a MAJOR pain in Linux, but I thought this had finally been put to bed. It seems not. I know this is not a UM issue, but is a broader Ubuntu/Debian one. But, it really is not good enough having flaky network functionality in this day and age.