First: I'm a QUITE happy new Zorin user...almost 12 hours!
I spent a week trying a number of distros (Ubunto, Xubuntu, Lubunto, Mate, Lite....even a strange AnduinOS) on a old (5 years) PC running positevely with Win7.
Zorin is the first, and unique at the moment, that installed at the first attempt, quite quickly (25') and... ESSENTIAL to me, allowed the installation fo Amule, VLC and Firefox, which are the only real 3 apps I need on this machine....good job guys!
Now I'm happy at 90%: the only nice thing to add (not mandatory, but useful) would be to share a folder back and forth with another PC running WIn10; pls note that this last PC already shares a folder with an old PC with Win7.
As my habit, I clicked on a folder in my Home directtory ('Transfer') expecting to see the familiar 'share this folder...'. None.
The network explorer (I do not reacall how it is called here) does not see any other PC on the nerwork.
I also added Samba from the rep: it also does not see anuthing.
From the Win10 I tried with the Zorin IP: nothing.
The funny thing is the superlative AI from Google says exactly:
" To share folders between Zorin OS and Windows 10, you need to install the Samba server on Zorin and configure sharing in both operating systems. First, share a folder on your Windows 10 machine and find its IP address using ipconfig. Then, install Samba on Zorin, make the desired Zorin folder shareable (like the Public folder)"
Possibly I'm now a little tired and I destroyed my last brain cells...what I'm missing?
Goodnighr
You're not missing anything. There is unfortunately a bug with the current version of Samba that Zorin OS 18 ships with, which is still unresolved.
From what I've seen, you can get it work by going the hands-on approach and editing the configuration files directly, though. But the GUI integration is still broken until further notice.
If you really need this functionality, and you're willing to mess with it a little bit, you can take a look at this thread for some ideas of what people have tried (with mixed results). I haven't yet tried it with another Windows machine, so I can't really say if that'd work.
The other option is to install Zorin OS 17, which is still supported until 2027. Save for a few new features available in Z18, everything should be mostly the same.
Hi Zenzen, many thanks for your frank and clear answer. At least my brain can rellax a bit since it is not a my fault.
As said, right now the sharing is not a mandatory option. I can still use a pen to transfer files.
Hope to see soon the release 18.1, 18-2, or whatever