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Sharing the Pi's WiFi connection through the Ethernet port

For Raspbian Jessie From this document: We will use dnsmasq package for this purpose because it is combined DHCP and DNS server and also easy to configure. If you want something a little more '...
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Where can I share my cool scripts?

Github.com gitlab.org bitbucket.org anywhere code related really
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Sharing the Pi's WiFi connection through the Ethernet port

Being your purpose provide internet access to your LAN devices, will assume double 'NAT' will not be a big issue. With this configuration you will provide wireless access to non WiFi devices that will ...
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Where can I share my cool scripts?

To have a jsfiddle-like shareable link for your scripts, create a Github account, and save your scripts as GISTs: https://gist.github.com/ You will be able to update them in the future if you need. ...
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Where can I share my cool scripts?

One place to go to - if you care about some explaining of those scripts too - would be our official+ blog Piversify: Piversify is a blog dedicated to the Raspberry Pi, written by members of the ...
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How can I easily access Windows shares from the Rpi3?

Utilize Microsoft's Common Interface File System (cifs) - the core of Microsoft's LAN Manager. (You can safely skip this tech info and proceed with the steps listed below) https://technet....
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How to automatically add any plugged-in USB-Printer to cups and share it to the network?

This used to be really simple, you could just use a device uri like usb:/dev/usb/lp0. Unfortunately, this has been deliberately removed. It can be enabled again by replacing just a line that signals ...
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FTP Server Installing on Pi 3 Debian Strench 9

I do not understand why VSFTPD, ProFTPD, PureFTPD should not work. They all are available from the default Raspbian repository. You should be able to just install one of them, configure and run it. ...
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How can I add shared drives to Raspberry PI 3?

Create a mountpoint for your share: sudo mkdir /media/winshare sudo chown pi:pi /media/winshare Create a smbcred file: nano /home/pi/.smbcred Write the following into it (replace username and ...
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Mount windows share: Bad UNC

It works following way ,too sudo mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD '\\192.168.2.12\TestShare' /mnt/ By wrapping in single quotes, you can copy-paste the url directly without ...
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Share files betweens two raspberry pis

If you just want to read the files, you can install nginx on your Pi and share the directory that has the files you want everybody else to read. This is read only, is pretty simple and very light ...
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How can I share my raspberry pi 3's internet to a router's WAN port?

Ok. I was able to get it to work. Things to note: With current version of Raspbian (JESSE/LITE), the use of /etc/network/interfaces is obsolete. But keep it as it is used by if-up and if-down ...
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How to share folder via ethernet cable to windows?

There are various programs that utilize SFTP, which is the file protocol that runs on the SSH port as well. Programs such as Filezilla, WinSCP, and others allow this type of connection. When using the ...
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Access files from one raspi of another

Answers: Yes - Samba is a good choice for what you want to do. There are many good resources for setting up Samba, here's one I created The main alternative for Samba is NFS. Each has its pros and ...
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Samba - two users with different permissions same folder

Have you set your Linux permissions so that userRO has access to the share? Recall that Samba permissions cannot override Linux permissions. Therefore, if you want userRO to access the share through ...
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Sharing VPN conection via WIFI hostpot

Yes, of course it is possible to configure a Virtual Private Network with OpenVPN using a Raspberry Pi. There is no difference to any other computer. So you will find many examples and setups on the ...
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Rasbian WebDav-Client davfs2: Create folder successfully, but files won't

I have found a solution. The setting of the my configuration davfs2.conf should be so: if_match_bug 1 use_locks 0 cache_size 1 table_size 4096 delay_upload 1 gui_optimize 1 Src: https://kb.mailbox....
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Access files from one raspi of another

Another option for network file sharing is sshfs, which allows you to mount a remote directory locally over an encrypted connection. It is very easy to configure and enabled by default on Raspbian ...
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Share data between different

I did something similar and used this basic set-up: Remotes controlling sensors send data to central. In my case I send JSON with the data over http. Central stores data in a MySQL database when the ...
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Cannot connect Samba share

From your description, it seems you've set up the smbpasswd incorrectly. Enter the command exactly as shown below: smbpasswd -a pi You should then be prompted to enter a password for user pi. Type ...
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fstab mount network share to older smb dd-wrt versions

The solution is to add vers=1.0 to the options on mount. It seems it is a kernel issue that mounts SMB (thats is my understanding from reading a lot about this issue) PS That works with credentials or ...
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Raspbian can't mount samba share on router

The mount needs to be of the form //<server>/<share>. From the smbclient -L output, the relevant parts are: Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- -...
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Chown permission denied on samba share

I believe you'll have to create a new user (with adduser) on the RPi running samba, to match the user which runs OwnCloud on the other RPi. As such, there are at least two possible ways to get ...
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Where can I share my cool scripts?

I had the same ideas before and after some research I found that we can share it as an open source project in Github. That's why I have created new Repository for this purpose and anybody can ...
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Where can I share my cool scripts?

So in frustration, I've thrown a little site together that has one script on it so far. It's very much a static site. I plan on adding a comments section on it later, but for now, it's very much non-...
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How do I connect raspberry pi to PC using ethernet for file sharing, while still using wifi for internet access?

It depends on which OS you are using and how you have configured networking. Also you haven't posted your current ifconfig. The default for current Raspbian is dhcpcd (which does an excellent job and ...
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