# Sharing a Folder

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/sharing-a-folder/2897>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [January 14, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/sharing-a-folder/2897 "2020-01-14T23:26:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![ChrisOfBristol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@ChrisOfBristol](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/ChrisOfBristol)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/sharing-a-folder/2897/1 "2020-01-14T23:26:31Z")

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A while ago I did a lot of fiddling about with a terminal on my desktop (possibly not UB) and managed to share a folder with my laptop. I later found that if I installed nautilus-share I could share the folder very simply from the Nautilus GUI, as it was an option on the context (right-click) menu. Now I find that the default file-manager is Nemo and the sharing options don’t show. Is there any way of doing that or will I have to switch to Nautilus? There’s no way I want to go back to typing terminal commands for this.

The sharing option seems to be available in Nemo on Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon. Has there been a decision to remove this from Nemo on UB?

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/sharing-a-folder/2897/2 "2020-01-15T17:45:50Z")

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Have a look at budgie welcome - recommendations for Nemo stuff.

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**Author:** ![ChrisOfBristol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@ChrisOfBristol](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/ChrisOfBristol)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/sharing-a-folder/2897/3 "2020-01-15T18:54:13Z")

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What? Read the manual? What do you take me for? 🙂

I’ve found it under **Budgie Welcome\>Recommendations\>Nemo Share.**

I wasn’t expecting it to be this easy, in the past I’ve had to mess about with commands in a terminal.

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**Author:** ![ChrisOfBristol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@ChrisOfBristol](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/ChrisOfBristol)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/sharing-a-folder/2897/4 "2020-01-16T13:39:11Z")

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For Nemo file sharing I need Samba. Several guides on file sharing and forum posts suggest various commands to start Samba server and name server and to ensure they restart next boot, such as

```
sudo systemctl enable smbd
sudo systemctl enable nmbd
sudo systemctl start smbd
sudo systemctl start nmbd

```

However this webpage  
[https://www.linuxtopia.org/online\_books/introduction\_to\_linux/linux\_SMB\_NMB.html](https://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/introduction_to_linux/linux_SMB_NMB.html)  
suggests that they should start by default on UB

> “Most Linux distributions provide a samba package, which does most of the server setup and starts up smbd, the Samba server, and nmbd, the netbios name server, at boot time by default.”

Using

> sudo systemctl status smbd  
> sudo systemctl status nmbd

shows that this seems to be the case

> Jan 16 12:32:40 desktop systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon…  
> Jan 16 12:32:42 desktop systemd[1]: Started Samba SMB Daemon.

I’ve tested that by running UB off a live CD and those processes both start by default on UB.

This is followed by:

```
Jan 16 12:33:56 desktop smbd[2037]: pam_unix(samba:session): session closed for user nobody
Jan 16 12:34:02 desktop smbd[2085]: pam_unix(samba:session): session closed for user nobody

```

I’ve no idea what that means, and it’s not really a good idea to ignore anything that looks like an error message, but it seems to work, so I’m not going to worry about it.

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**Author:** ![AlistairG](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/alistairg/32/1959_2.png) [@AlistairG](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/AlistairG)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 5:37am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/sharing-a-folder/2897/5 "2020-01-17T05:37:37Z")

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**Budgie Welcome\>Recommendations\>Nemo Share.**  
Where are Recommendations?? Are new options visible after install?

 ![Selection_463](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/ubuntubudgie/original/2X/0/042d6215c8eaf6a2739449239738c5152627e5f1.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/sharing-a-folder/2897/6 "2020-01-17T06:12:45Z")

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Correct. The app changes to be desktop relevant rather than focussing on installation matters.