<div dir="ltr">I have found samba is one of those technologies which manages to either work "just like that" (Go on, in your best Tommy cooper voice) or on the odd occasion you can be screaming at it for hours and it turns out that it's one of those strange requirements that you never thought to check (in my case it was the time difference between the clocks on the two hosts).<div><br></div><div>Congratulations on getting it working.</div><div><br></div><div>I have just had a little read around.</div><div><a href="http://www.tecmint.com/how-to-setup-nfs-server-in-linux/">http://www.tecmint.com/how-to-setup-nfs-server-in-linux/</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/set-up-easy-file-sharing-with-nfs-on-linux/">http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/set-up-easy-file-sharing-with-nfs-on-linux/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I think the wall you have been up against with NFS is that most guides (and the way most people work) is to mount the network location on a machine and then restrict access to either the mount location to a user or directories within that location. This way you can mount /home/ as a network location rather than using the local disk. Where as with Samba (and windows network file sharing) revolves around different users connecting to different named locations with a token exchange on each connection. Which <i>could</i> be replicated in linux as creating separate mounts for each user, mounting them and relying on Linux permissions to restrict access to the mount point and/or directories within it.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope that my wordy explanation clears up that.</div><div><br></div><div>The more common way to integrate with unix machines on an adhoc basis is to use ssh/scp/sftp methods to copy files up/down.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 June 2015 at 00:04, jwmartnet . <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwm.art.net@gmail.com" target="_blank">jwm.art.net@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> I've found this 'Simple Samba file sharing server setup':<br>
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> <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/SambaServerSimple" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/SambaServerSimple</a><br>
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</span>Well that was surprisingly painless and does all I wanted so I'm happy now.<br>
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