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http://ubuntuforums.org – Perhaps someone can help me through some of these issues... I have recently put Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (please tell me if there is a better thread for this) on a lab computer for use as a file server, but I cannot seem to get our Windows computers to see the Ubuntu share or vise versa. I right clicked the folder, said share, and did the samba install. I edited the samba smb.conf file per the discussions here, I edited the nsswitch.conf file per the discussion here, I installed winbind, I disabled the firewall, and I rebooted and tried tearing down the share and re-sharing. (HowTos)

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