i have just installed ubuntu?

[manbearpig]

how do i set the pc up so that it will share the external hard drive i have plugged into it with my windows pc over the network?

thanks

 

[manbearpig]

when i try and share it it says this:

'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot share path /media/External as we are restricted to only sharing directories we own.
Ask the administrator to add the line "usershare owner only = false"
to the [global] section of the smb.conf to allow this.

 

[manbearpig]

thanks, i will try that. i have never used linux before so..