share folders on the network

[timkb4cq]

You should be able to install the thunar-shares-plugin package now.

[napsix65]

ooppssss

[napsix65]

ooopppsss

file:///home/demo/Desktop/Screenshot.png

[timkb4cq]

If instead of going into folder properties, you Right Click and choose Share a folder on your network you will be able to setup the Share.

[seaken64]

I have an office with 8 PCs in the network and I can not be explaining to my 8 employees how to add folders in MX Linux, it would be tedious and a lot of time is lost. At the moment they use Mint Mate and share folders very easily. I can not migrate the office PCs to MX Linux. Anyway, in my notebook I use MX Linux 18.1, it really is an excellent distro.

I know the difficulty of setting up the computers for employees. Instead of having them share between one another I setup a central share and direct them all to use only that share (we call it the S drive). I set it up myself on each user account at each terminal rather than leaving them to setting up their own shares.

For most of my employees/users it doesn't matter if it's Windows or MX or Mint, whatever. It's hard for them no matter what. I setup the networking and they use it according to my instructions.

If it helps you I find that I have the most success using the IP address instead of the computer host name. Something like this:

smb://192.168.1.101/SDRIVE

instead of:

smb://MXSERVER/SDRIVE

I run into network browser issues all the time and I find that specifying the IP address works better.

Seaken64

[dphn]

It's not that I'm not happy to use MX Linux, I just do a cosmntructive opinion and it draws my attention that other desktops have simple network options, and that MX does not have them. So I will use NFS, if as I explained earlier, there is a simpler way to share folders on the network.

for NFS shares:

mount NFS shares via fstab

Example for fstab entry with noauto-option.

Server-IP:/XYZ /home/USERNAME/XYZ nfs noauto,users,rw,nosuid,dev,exec,async 0 0

NFS isn't working with gvfs on Debian, there is no backend. I don't know why. On Arch Linux there is a gvfs-nfs backend available.

[napsix65]

thanks guys, but it is so easy to share one or more folders in the Mate script, in Cinnamon or in KDE Plasma, that for now, I will dispense with the XFCE desktop, whatever the distribution.

[baldyeti]

Did you succeed with the right-click/share-folder option suggested by Tim ?

[dphn]

think thunar-shares-plugin is a nice helper. Perhaps an additional feature for the MX-ISO. Looks userfriendly.

[allen]

no im not

i can not share using that