Hello all, basic question. Running up to date Neon.

How do I create a shared folder?
I downloaded samba from discover but I still do not see an option to share a folder.
When running the samba program, I get an error "could not find the program "gksu"

Thanks in advance
btw, this is not a critical issue but it would be nice to have working.
Steve

"running the samba program"?

Which one?
Where?
How?

I open discover and did a search for samba.
There were 3 options. I installed the first one and tried it. There is not much information in discover but it added a "samba" option in my start menu. I know that is not a lot of "meaningful" information.

From there I tried out the there 2 option including samba 4k

I can see other sharer on the network, always could even before this attempt, but I just do not see a way to create a share

Steve

System Settings

Enter "share"/"samba"/"smb"/"cifs" in search box (top right)

You should get Input Fields similar to these:

http://ksambakdeplugin.sourceforge.net/ ... center.png

This picture is hopelessly out-of-date. It's only a hint
about what You should be looking for.

I am getting closer.

After web searches I kept up coming across the word "kdenetwork" and did a search in discover. Installed it and the "share option was now present as a tab in the properties.

From another computer running Neon, I can access that folder thru Nautilus, so it is a start.

Steve

Sorry, NoNameNoBlame, I was actually typing my post while you were also typing
Steve

Looks like this is completely solve now. kdenetwork was the missing piece. Once this is installed, the share option is available as a tab in the properties when right clicking on a folder. From there, just set it up as a shared folder and the read write properties and hit apply.

I can access the folder via both Dolphin and Nautilus from my other Neon computers.

Hope this is useful to others

Steve

steveblezy wrote:Looks like this is completely solve now. kdenetwork was the missing piece. Once this is installed, the share option is available as a tab in the properties when right clicking on a folder. From there, just set it up as a shared folder and the read write properties and hit apply.
I can access the folder via both Dolphin and Nautilus from my other Neon computers.
Hope this is useful to others
Steve

Thanks. I had the same problem on 2 newly installed KDE Neon 5.16 computers. I guess this is a bug.
Installing kdenetwork immediatly brought up the Share tab on the Folder Properties in Dolphin. Nice!
The share tab had a warning "Samba is not installed" on one PC where I hadn't installed yet Samba.
The Tab had an Install Samba button. Which installed Samba.

For we this solved access in one direction only. One PC can read the other. But not the other way round.
A very frustrating experience. Searching brings mostly outdated advice and no checklist for non IT users.

Actually, you don't have to install the whole of kdenetwork, which includes a lot of utilities and other applications and libraries that one may not want or need .

The package kdenetwork-filesharing is the individual bit that provides the samba filesharing option.

claydoh wrote:Actually, you don't have to install the whole of kdenetwork, which includes a lot of utilities and other applications and libraries that one may not want or need .
The package kdenetwork-filesharing is the individual bit that provides the samba filesharing option.

Thanks. Searching kdenetwork only found 1 item, kdenetwork, in Discover.
Any idea of a reason why this is not included in the Neon distro?

Maybe Kubuntu has it? I'm thinking of returning to Kubuntu due to networking difficulties in Neon. Even though Kubuntu was never great in that area.

ianp5a wrote:Thanks. Searching kdenetwork only found 1 item, kdenetwork, in Discover.
Any idea of a reason why this is not included in the Neon distro?

Maybe Kubuntu has it? I'm thinking of returning to Kubuntu due to networking difficulties in Neon. Even though Kubuntu was never great in that area.

Discover doesn't always find packages that are there (frequently). That's why I also have Synaptic installed (which does find kdenetwork-filesharing).

Press [Ctrl] & [Alt] & T to open terminal, copy and paste the following entering sudo password:

sudo apt-get install kdenetwork-filesharing libsmbclient samba samba smbclient

Restart computer, all done. The sharing tab will be visible if you right click on a folder and go to Properties. Don't expect to browse for network shares, map shares using IP address, browsing for shares hasn't worked under any OS that matters since Wannacry and the resulting dumping of SMB1.