This OS is one of the few that I've ever seen make a share just visible to windows 10 clients on my LAN. How does that work? What are you guys doing differently, to make your shares visible to windows clients?
Hm, I'm not sure, maybe nautilus-share?
You can take a look at this thread:
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yeah I took a look at that. It's not discussing how Zorin does what it does to make the shares visible unfortunately. Nautilus-share is great for setting up the share, though!
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Hi, and welcome!
I'm not sure what you mean... Zorin OS uses standard utilities available to all. The SMB protocol is well established, and the packages are coming from the upstream Ubuntu repositories. Nothing special. Perhaps the only difference is the absence of a firewall, which is not enabled by default.
Interesting... going back and looking at it, it appears you're correct. I thought my shares showed up by default on my LAN, but actually no, they don't - not even with ZorinOS.
That's too bad, but at this point expected.
I thought you guys were doing something like this: make samba share visible in Windows "Network" - Ask Ubuntu
If I'm not mistaken, the file manager's internal implementation of the SMB protocol is still at version 1. I seem to remember an issue someone had with this, as their NAS wouldn't accept connections from that version.
Those are the kind of subtle differences that may make it work for some configurations, but not others. But, at the end of the day, as long as they're discoverable, that's what matters.
yeah my suspicion was based on that link: Windows 10 has disabled SMB1, so now you need to advertise some other way.
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