Thread: samba shares - USB drive on xubuntu to be accessed by various Windows

well, sort of screwed thoughts on , went off in wrong direction, so........i have old laptop running xubuntu has 750gb usb drive attached. i'd set samba shares require login - ex: folder1 accessed user1. user1 running on windows machine. have 3 laptops in house i'd access own shares on 750gb drive on xubuntu machine. 1 xp, 1 windows 7 , last windows 8. i'd able following: @ logon on each windows machine, automatically connect "user" userid , password xubuntu share user. way users of each of laptops doesn't have know squat shares - there disk available. it's been long long time, remember when working windows shares log user in , connect logical drive share (folder) on server. think same thing samba , various windows laptops. know how set share in samba. know how create samba user - don't know how use on windows side logon, connect, whatever want call (or ubuntu box) , assign drive letter share - along lines of //server/share - don't remember of syntax or specifics anymore. nor remember how default windows group homegroup "mygroup" (obviously different that). so, can point me how-to setting things on xubuntu side , various windows laptops? thanks!

i find plot thickens: need mount external usb drive somewhere before can share it. noticed xubuntu lets me use file manager , examine drive contents, option shows mount device. i'm assuming apparently not-done mount stopping "share" option showing when right-click on folder on drive. guess need fstab entry device mounted @ boot - not real sure how - when it's usb device - how know @ mount device in /dev tree? can mount folder under /home device not mounted in given user's file structures? hummmmmm, been trying read man pages on fstab can't figure out how create entry usb device. help?? (!!)

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