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Hello my name is Andrew Gee and welcome to this Ubuntu screencast.

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In this screencast you will learn how to browse Samba shares from within Ubuntu,

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how to make a quick shortcut on your desktop to access these shares,

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and finally, how to share your own files over Samba.

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Here is a diagram of a two computers, one is running Windows and one is running Ubuntu

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You need to share files between these computers, but how do you do it?

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This is where Samba comes in,

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Samba is an open source implementation of Windows filesharing.

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It allows you to access and create files over a network, using all sorts of platforms.

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So you are able to share between Ubuntu and Windows, Ubuntu and Mac,

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Ubuntu and a different Linux distribution or even Ubuntu and Unix.

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So now you know a bit of background, let us begin

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One thing you will be able to do is browse Samba shares on remote computers

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To do this, you need to go to the Places menu and then click on the Network icon.

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This will bring up a network browser window, where you will be able to choose Windows shares by double-clicking on a Windows network icon

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Here you can see both workgroups exist on the network.

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The default one is mshome and you are most likely to be connecting to this one, so double-click on that.

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and see the computers in that workgroup.

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Double-click on the computer you want to access and that will load the computer.

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From here you are able to see what shares are on this computer.

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Double-click on the one you want to access, that will show you all the files within.

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Now you are seeing the share as if it is on the local computer.

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You are able to do the normal file manipulation that you would want,

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such as deleting, copying, pasting, cutting and all the rest.

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If the share is read-only you can not change anything.

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So you can get to the shares on the network, you probably do not want to go through all of that browsing each time.

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What we will do is make a shortcut on the desktop, this will provide a quick and easy connection to the share.

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Go to the Places menu, click Connect to server...

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In the Service type dropdown pick Windows share,

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in the Server box type the name of the computer you want to connect to,

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in the share box type the name of the share you want to connect to, on the computer,

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in the folder box you can type the folder to go directly in if you want to,

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the next two boxes are advanced and in the final box allows you to name the connection.

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Once you have filled out all of that information, click the connect button.

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As you can see here, an icon has appeared on your desktop, which you are able to double-click on

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to bring up the share, where all the files are, straight to it.

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So you now know how to access shares from other computers,

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but how about setting up a share on this computer?

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Go to System, Administration, Shared Folders, enter your password,

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If this is the first time you have run this, you will get a box looking like this saying you need to install some packages.

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Make sure the two boxes are selected and click the Install Services button.

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You see all the packages being downloaded, that need to be installed.

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Now you can see them being installed.

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Once the installation has complete you will see this, go ahead and click the Close button.

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Then you will see this box here, where you can manage your shared folders.

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Clicking the Add button will bring a box up like this, allowing you to set up a share,

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In the path box you have got to select what folder you would like to be shared,

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in this case it is my home directory.

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In the second make sure it says the SMB protocol, because that is what Samba runs on.

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The next two boxes allow you to customise the name and description

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and the final option allow you to change whether it's read-only or not

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Once you have set up all those settings go ahead and press Ok

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You can see that your share has appeared in the box

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and that will be there for computers that are remote.

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Thank you for watching this screencast.

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