The easiest way to do this is to right-click the network icon in your system tray and choose 'Open Network and Sharing Center.
To set up a shared folder on Windows for Linux to access, start by making sure your network settings are configured to allow the connection from the other computer by opening the Network and Sharing Center. Step One: Make Sure Sharing is Enabled in Windows And then, we'll look at how to access that folder from a Linux system. Once it is, we'll share the actual folder. First, we'll make sure sharing is enabled on Windows. (see screenshot below) compact /u /s:' full path of folder ' /i /Q. 2 Type the command below into the command prompt, and press Enter. To make this work, we'll be taking three steps. 1 Open a command prompt or elevated command prompt depending on the access rights you need for the compressed folder and its contents (files and subdirectories) you want to uncompress. Option One: Create a Share on Windows and Access It From Linux We're using Windows 10 and Ubuntu for our examples, but we've made the instructions adaptable to pretty much any version of Windows or Linux. If, for some reason, you want to set up shared folders on both systems, you can do that, too.
Depending on your situation, you'll want to follow the appropriate set of instructions. In the second part, we'll create a shared folder on Linux and configure Windows to access the share. In the first part, we'll create a shared folder on Windows, and then configure Linux to access that share.
