{"id":4634,"date":"2015-02-05T18:46:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T18:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4634"},"modified":"2015-02-05T18:46:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T18:46:46","slug":"share-a-folder-in-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/share-a-folder-in-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Share A Folder in Ubuntu 14.04 (Local Network)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ubuntu-tips.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ubuntu-tips.png\" alt=\"share a folder\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ubuntu-tips.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ubuntu-tips-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a beginners&#8217; step by step guide that shows how to share a folder in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS over local network.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> To get started, right-click on the folder you want to share and choose the &#8220;Local Network Share&#8221; option.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/local-network-share.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/local-network-share.jpg\" alt=\"local-network-share\" width=\"600\" height=\"293\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/local-network-share.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/local-network-share-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t see this option, search for and install <b>nautilus-share<\/b> in Ubuntu Software Center and restart Nautilus by running <code>nautilus -q<\/code> or just log out and back in.<\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> When the &#8216;File Sharing&#8217; dialog opens, click the box to enable &#8216;Share this folder&#8217; option. Click the &#8220;Install service&#8221; button if it asks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/enable-file-sharing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/enable-file-sharing.jpg\" alt=\"enable-file-sharing\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/enable-file-sharing.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/enable-file-sharing-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the installation process finish, log out and back in.<\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> Re-do step 1 to open the &#8216;File Sharing&#8217; dialog for any folder. Depends on your need, enable write permission and\/or guess access.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/share-folder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/share-folder.jpg\" alt=\"share-folder\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>4.<\/b> If you want client machines to access this share with a username and password, disable Guest access and do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Search for and install <code>system-config-samba<\/code> in Ubuntu Software Center.<\/li>\n<li>Start Samba <i>(graphical tool)<\/i> from the Dash or menu.<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to menu Preferences -> Samba Users<\/li>\n<li>Click &#8216;Add User&#8217; in next window and then select your username, type in a Windows username and password.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/add-samba-user.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/add-samba-user.png\" alt=\"add-samba-user\" width=\"600\" height=\"328\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/add-samba-user.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/add-samba-user-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally you can access this folder in a local network machine using the username (either handbook or ubuntu-laptop in picture) and password.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a beginners&#8217; step by step guide that shows how to share a folder in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS over local network. 1. To get started, right-click on the folder you want to share and choose the &#8220;Local Network Share&#8221; option. If you don&#8217;t see this option, search for and install nautilus-share in Ubuntu Software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1070],"class_list":["post-4634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-file-sharing"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}