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Windows 10 can't access samba shared folder. How do I check if my firewall is blocking traffic? Or what command should I run to allow?

@jp734 What type of Puppy Linux or other distro are you using?

What have you turned on or tried?

Have you checked Menu->Network->Samba Simple Management and configured the SAMBA shares and if the server is active?

The username and password need to be set for the samba server.
in a terminal:

smbpasswd -a root

make sure the samba switch in the Samba Simple Management is the color green.

If the switch is red, click it to toggle on the SAMBA server.

@rockedge Got it to work. Couple issues were the firewall and I forgot to create a user.

For firewall, I went to:

• MENU>>Network>>Firewall Setup

• uncheck "Firewall On - When this button is checked, a generic firewall is generated on no specific interface" (this blocked everything)

• clicked on Samba and Samba Client check boxes to allow traffic

For the users, I have a couple of folders. One that can be accessed by everyone and one just for a group I created with user security level. I created a group but I forgot to create a user for the group.

Thanks

(EDIT) - Setting this up on BookwormPup64 (Bookworm is becoming my main system. everything I tried to do worked so far: menu/tray transparency, nvidia driver and samba. And this same pc I use with BionicPup64 responds faster with BookwormPup64)

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