Up until recently I'd considered Windoze 10 to be as stable as Windoze 7, in the last couple of weeks three of my machines have decided that the BSOD is back with a vengeance. I could stuff around with Windoze but decided to give Linux another try. I settled upon Mint and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was happy enough to to work with my dual monitor setup using an nVidia card (last time I tried that, I gave up in disgust). It actually set an expanded desktop at native resolution for each monitor without any input from me.
File sharing is causing me some minor hassle. I had it all working with both laptops and decided to add my (wired) media server into the mix. That machine has 8 different HDDs connected to it (I should really just spring for a multi terabyte drive) and I went through and set up the shares for each of them. This is where my problems began. I can see the computer, and the drives on the network (stragely it still shows up as a windoze network) but I cannot log onto any of them (permission denied). Even though I have set all permissions that I can find, I even allowed SAMBA through the firewall. Even on the computer where the drives reside I can open them in NEMO but cannot open them if I select the "shared" drives.
Suggestions, polite, or otherwise, might be ignored, depending upon how clever it is.
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