Networking Linux PC via Wireless router in Wiin 8.1

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Eagleshadow

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I would like to be able to see the linux pc from my Win 8.1 pc. The Win Network folder shows everything but the linux pc. Yes I would like them in the same Workroup. My music server and networked receiver render fine. Sharing computer to computer is the end goal. Again I can ping both directions and the linux pc and the win 8.1 pc show up on the router map by name. I am using a Netgear router and use the Netgear Genie App. I cannot connect directly. I am thinking windows firewall or router permissions. The linuc pc has no firewall. I cannot map a drive to the linux pc either form the win pc nor can i mount the win pc from the linuc pc.

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stillblue

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You need to add samba to your linux machine
a good tutorial http://www.howtogeek.com/74459/how-to-create-samba-windows-shares-in-linux-the-easy-way/
 
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There are two distributed file systems that you should be aware of.

The first is NFS, or Network File System. NFS is the primary distributed file system for UNIX operating systems and UNIX-Like operating systems. This includes the traditional commercial UNIX operating systems (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX), UNIX derived operating systems (the various BSDs and OSX/Darwin), as well as many other POSIX-compliant-to-some-degree operating systems such as Linux.

Windows also has support for NFS through the Services for Unix subsystem. However, this has been depreciated and reduced to only the Enterprise version of Windows 8.1.

The second is SMB, or Server Message Block. This is the protocol that Windows uses to communicate between devices in a Microsoft Windows Workgroup or Microsoft Active Directory Domain. It works at a higher level than NFS and has more features (such as printer and port sharing), but can sometimes be a bit problematic if all of the various endpoints aren't properly configured. Fortunately there's a free and fairly well written implementation for many POSIX operating systems called Samba which works very well for file sharing. Most Linux distributions have a Samba client/server available in the distribution repository.

So, the reason that it can't communicate with it is because they are speaking incompatible protocols (if NFS is installed on the Linux device, it may not be by default).

Given that the rest of your network is already configured for SMB, it would probably be easiest to install Samba on your Linux machine to make it play nicely with the rest of your network. Alternatively you could try and find some third party support for NFS on Windows, as Microsoft's native support is only available in WIndows 8 Enterprise.

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Eagleshadow

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Thank you for your response. I have installed samba and have been trying to get it up and running for some time. I can't access either machine from either end by IP address. Since I can ping the boxes it seems my Samba is not configured correctly. I will keep plodding.
 
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