Set up network shares in 18.04 using Caja

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I think I figured it out combining various instructions. I did the following:

  1. Installed Samba “sudo apt install samba -y”
  2. Created Samba user “sudo smbpasswd -a username”, username must be a local user on PC as well.
  3. Edited “/etc/samba/smb.conf” file. Added following section to the end:
    [share_name]
    path = full folder_name
    valid users = username
    read only = no
    4)Restarted Samba “sudo systemctl restart smbd”
    This worked for me so far. It was much easier before when all you needed to do was right click on a folder within Caja.
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