To add I thought that I had mounted the 200gb drive correctly and I had access to the whole 200gb on my windows network, in actual fact I only seem to have 20gb? I cant see how or where the shared folder is restricted?

Have you added the second drive (the large one) as a samba share? I am not sure, I started off with just one drive in the machine got that working following the instructions and making a tempoary folder, when I added the second drive it would not let me use the same folder so i made a different one...

Hi I have managed get get putty and webmin working and I have added the partion of my first drive to Samba file sharing and I can read and write to it from my windows network (Though my TV cannot see it ATM) I have added a second drive to my server partitioned it and it added the two physical drives...

Sussed it I refreshed webmin modules and samba has appeared

Got over my Putty and VNC problem now I am struggling with Webmin. Webmin works, however following the tutorial for setting the server up it says: So, click Servers -> Samba Windows File Sharing and click on Convert Unix users to Samba users and click on Convert users. Once we've done this we should...

I have answered in the quote Hmm, Have you assigned a static ip address to either your ubuntu machine or your w7 machine? My laptop is fixed via mac address on the router, the ubuntu is not fixed but is always assigned the same address? When using putty are you trying to use the machine name or the...

I have answered in the quote Hmm, Have you assigned a static ip address to either your ubuntu machine or your w7 machine? My laptop is fixed via mac address on the router, the ubuntu is not fixed but is always assigned the same address? When using putty are you trying to use the machine name or the ...

Ping successful so I can ping my win 7 laptop from the Ubuntu server and I can ping the server from my laptop

Ian wrote:Start a Terminal session (Ctrl + Alt + T) or choose from the menu. Then "ping YourWindowsMachine" in the Terminal Session as per normal. Ctrl + C to stop the ping once you've got a few replies.

I shall give that a go shortly and let you know how I get on

Ian wrote:Can you ping your windows desktop from the ubuntu machine?

I havent tried I can see the windows desktop and my WHS and other machines on the Lan from the server. How do I ping in Ubuntu?