Betty, Samba is to allow a Linux box to access a M$ box.
You don not want to go that way. 

A simple (geeky) way would be sshfs, but if that is over your head, there 
are other GUI options.
What Linux are you running in those boxes?
I suggest you remove (and purge) Samba, because that's just another 
vulnerability point.
ET 

 

betty writes: 

> i have two linux computers called 'stormy' and 'stormy too'. i want to be 
> in one of my offices in the house and access files or send files to 
> another office in my house. ie, send from 'stormy' to 'stormy too' .
>  they are both on a wired connection to my cox service.
> i have installed 'samba'. (but i don't know where it is on the gui)
> i think i have to enable file sharing through the 
> 'admin>preferences>personal file sharing, but when i  go to that the 
> screen says "this feature cannot be enabled because the required packages 
> are not installed on your system" . well that is all fine and good, but it 
> does not tell me what the required packages are.
> this is frustrating. 
> 
> is this something that is over my head?
> as usual thank you for your magnificent and useful help; please keep basic 
> as possible.
> maybe there is an easy tutorial i can follow?, i looked but as expected, 
> there is a plethora of sites.... 
> 
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