Set up network shares in 18.04 using Caja

[jaybo]

@jaybo

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.

So I thought I figured out SAMBA and bookmarked this thread for when I install UM 20.4. Well, the instructions above did not work. I even copied my smb.conf from 18.04 to 20.04 with no success. What did work was doing all listed above and adding the following two lines to the smb.conf file below the WORKGROUP entry

    client min protocol = NT1
    server min protocol = NT1

Samba seems to be a challenge with every distribution upgrade.