Share a folder with Samba

Hi there.

I need to share a folder with my home network. How can I do this with Aurora or eventually Bluefin if not possible?

I usually have a very easy menu after right-clicking, but I don’t see anything. Usually kdenetwork-filesharing is installed already, but I can’t see anything.

Thanks in advance

Hello, I just started using UniversalBlue this week and also needed a Samba server on my PC. You can easily activate Samba as follows (as root user):

rpm-ostree install samba samba-common samba-client --allow-inactive

Then have a look at the following documentation - because of selinux settings: GitHub - ublue-os/ucore: An OCI base image of Fedora CoreOS with batteries included

Cheers,
Andreas

Thank you. I’m pretty sure I did everything from that link and more from Fedora’s docs, but I can’t see the shared folder from Windows.

I hope someone sooner or later will add easier samba, like a simple left click → share folder, because I’ve been trying this for hours and hours by now. :')

Remote desktop is also absurdly hard. Switched to KDE Plasma and works better, but can’t find any easy solution to share a simple folder. Normal users would throw everything away and go to ChromeOS or Windows as soon as possible.

I got wsdd and samba working great. Have you sorted this out

Don’t take this the wrong way but I got to say this:
When you managed to make it work, even place that statement in a thread where somebody doesn’t get it working, why don’t you explain how you did it:
what did you install, how did you set it up, in other words what did you do to make it work?
Only saying I got it working doesn’t help anybody.

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I was waiting whether anybody else was interested


Yes, it would be of great help to everyone else who comes across this topic (like me). Please, do share how you made it work.

Next release of aurora will have samba usershare support working ootb, you will be able to create a Samba usershare through Dolphin (right click a folder → Properties → Share). The first time you do it, you’ll have to add your user to the usershares group using the button. Credit goes to @tduck

Hopefully, we can get this added to the documentation. :slight_smile:

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Excuse me for the ignorance, what do we mean here with “next version”? :backhand_index_pointing_right::backhand_index_pointing_left:

I’d understand if it was Fedora or Ubuntu, but with Aurora I’d expect “the next image” (tomorrow? next week?)