Nov 18, 2018 How to Open the Share folder. The following example show how to open the Public shared folder we’ve just created in Linux Mint 19. Open Explore and type the Linux Mint IP address with the following format: 192.168.100.11. Change the IP address with your actual IP address. Now you should be able to open the Public folder from a Windows machine. Jun 15, 2020 It allows users on a Linux system access to a particular mount point on a windows share. CIFS is an implementation of SMB (Server Message Block) - a protocol used for network file sharing. This tutorial will go through all steps of installing and configuring relevant utilities in order to mount windows share on Linux system. You may have setup VirtualBox shared folder as we had previous described but you cannot use it or copy files to it until you mount VirtualBox shared folder on Ubuntu or Linux guest OS. Setting up a shared VBox folder allows you to easily share files between host OS and guest OS. This post shows how to mount VBox shared folder on Ubuntu guest.
Exporting a file system with NFS in Linux. Start with the server system that exports — makes available to the client systems — the contents of a directory. On the server, you must run the NFS service and designate one or more file systems to export. To export a file system, you have to add an appropriate entry to the /etc/exports file. Windows Explorer allows for users to set a default view to all folders. In almost the same way, Linux Mint's File Manager allows for these settings: Go to 'Menu' and click the Files icon. At the top of the File Browser, click 'Edit' and 'Preferences'. Ace base flac. Under Default View, change 'Icon View' to 'List View', to see more details in columns.
File sharing does not work. I have made a share folder by using sharing options in the file manager. I see that this folder appears on file manager on another computer in LAN. But I can not open this share on other computer. I know that in April was very bad update of Samba, so it have not been improved I have red this https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1937
and made
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$ sudo service samba restart
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(instead 'samba' here must be 'smbd' ?)
I am in the group sambashare.
I manually add
$ sudo smbpasswd -a user’s_name_for_Samba
But file sharing still does not work. So, there is absent simple file sharing 'from the box' in Linux Mint, isn't it?
Sorry for my English.
There many different ways of creating a shortcut in Linux Mint. In this post I'll introduce several(tested on Linux Mint 19):
- Creating shortcut from right click menu
- Using terminal for creating shortcut
- Creating a launcher as a shortcut
Video tutorial: how to create shortcut in Linux Mint 19
How to create shortcut to a weblink
How to create shortcut to a weblink
Creating shortcut from right click menu
Let say that we have folders: pictures and videos. Our goal is to create link from videos to pictures:
- /home/user/Pictures
- /home/user/Videos
Here are the steps that you can follow to create link from videos to pictures:
- Open parent folder or Pictures or the other folders - /home/user/
- Right click folder Pictures
- Make Link (You may need to press + - next to open - in order to show more commands)
- Copy paste the new link into videos folder
Using terminal for creating shortcut
Another way to create the shortcut would be by using the terminal. Below you can find two examples:
- create new shortcut(symlink):
- create/update new shortcut(symlink):
Creating a launcher as a shortcut
Another way of creating shortcut in Linux mint is by using a launcher. These are the steps:
- right click on the desktop
- create a new launcher here ..
- Enter launcher properties
- name - Pictures link
- command - nemo %UPictures
- comment - link to pictures(optional)
- icon - /usr/share/icons/Mint-x/places/128/folder.svg (optional)
move the launcher in Videos folder.
How to create a shortcut to a weblink
Share Folder In Linux
If you need to create a shortcuts for external web links like Youtube, Facebook, StackOverflow etc then you can use a bit different technique like:
- create a script
- right click on your Desktop and name the file: **youtube.sh **
- right click the script file and enable execution
- Edit the file ( by click and choosing Display )
- Enter the link as:
- for chrome -
google-chrome https://www.youtube.com
- for default browser -
sensible-browser https://www.youtube.com
- for firefox -
firefox https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python?tab=Bounties
- for chrome -
the final file content will look like:
Now you can use the shortcut in order to open your link as Linux Mint / Ubuntu desktop shortcut.
What Is Shared Folder
In order to avoid the prompt:
'Do you want to run or display its contents'
You have two options:
- Change this behavior for a single file by creating a shortcut in the panel
- Change behavior for all files by:
- Open Nautilus ( the file browser for Ubuntu and Linux Mint)
- Edit
- Preferences
- Behavior
- Executable Text Files
- Run executable text files when they are opened
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Personally I prefer the first option.