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I'm trying share files between two computers with Ubuntu in my home, but I cannot get it.

I try to explain what I do until now

1- I have activated the Sharing Folders services using: sudo apt-get install libapache2-svn

And I have created a folder called Public, and I give it share permissions for sharing, I did the same in the other computer.

But It don't work

2- I install Samba and Samba Config and I added the folder to Samba Server.

But It don't work.

I created a Workgroup with the same name in two computers without success

When I try to enter in the local network asked me for a password

Can anyone explain me how I can share folder between two Ubuntu Computers in a home network step by step.

Thank You

muru
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user258792
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  • Samba is intended for sharing between windows and ubuntu. For sharing in between Ubuntu I would suggest `nfs`. See https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/serverguide/network-file-system.html Takes about 10 min. to setup. – Rinzwind Oct 26 '14 at 10:39
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    possible duplicate of [How to share files through the local network?](http://askubuntu.com/questions/310180/how-to-share-files-through-the-local-network) – Lucio Sep 25 '15 at 04:29

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If you have installed python you can try SimpleHTTPServer. For this 

cd /folder/to/share

And then,

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

This will allow sharing through port 8000. The other machine can access the files using http://"IP of first machine":8000

Anonymous Platypus
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You may utilize this open source file synchronizing software - syncthing.

  • It is easy to configure
  • Very much simple to maintain/operate for long runs
  • Can easily add multiple machines(computer/mobile of most operating systems) as backup/source as if needed

Also i encourage you to self-explore more from the existing official documentations

Aravinth
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