ES File Explorer can’t find Ubuntu Server
Monday, May 12th, 2014SOLVED
“ES File Explorer can’t find Ubuntu Server” — And for that matter, nothing can find the Ubuntu server. Not Windows XP, not Windows Vista, not Windows 7, not Windows 8, not a MAC, not even another Linux Desktop.
Every time I reinstall Ununtu, I have trouble making Samba shares visible to Windows machines — and to ES File Explorer on  my android phone.
You would think that when you install the Ubuntu Desktop, and you right-click a folder in Nautilus and try to share it, it would share. Ah — life is never that easy.
To get the shares working, I did a million and one things, but I think this is what fixed it.
First, get all the updates you should have.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Second, install Samba.
sudo apt-get install samba
Third, (and this is what I always seem to forget) make yourself a samba user with a password.
sudo smbpasswd -a username
Restart Samba.
sudo service smbd restart
That’s it.
It works for me now.
