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Sharing the Pi's WiFi connection through the Ethernet port

I have a pi running the latest release of raspbian and it's connected to the Internet using a wireless USB dongle. What I would like to do, is to share the pi's wifi connection so that any computer connected to the pi using a LAN cable would be able…
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Where can I share my cool scripts?

I've written a few (what I consider to be cool) bash scripts (that are specific to the Raspberry Pi), and I'd like to share them with the community. Is there a jsfiddle-like site where I can put up the scripts? Maybe even a community-based,…
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Mount windows share: Bad UNC

I am trying to mount a windows share using this command: sudo mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD \\192.168.2.12\TestShare mnt/ But it is giving me this error: mount.cifs: bad UNC (\192.168.2.12TestShare) I have also tried these…
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How can I share my raspberry pi 3's internet to a router's WAN port?

I would like to share my 4GLTE within my home network by tethering from my phone through USB. The reason is because I have other devices that need to communicate with each other without the need for Internet. The following setup works without a…
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How can I easily access Windows shares from the Rpi3?

I have a Rpi3 which has been set up from 32gb NOOBS, and has VNC and XRDP installed so I run it headless via Windows Desktop Client on a Vista laptop. On the laptop I have an explicit share of the C: drive called c. (Of course, there is an…
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Unable to make write only smb share

I have the home folder of my Raspberry Pi B+ shared via SMB working fine. Now i'm trying to make a public, write only folder: i edited the configuration like so but it doesn't seem to work. I can't write anything to that…
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How do I delay transmission-daemon startup until all shares are mounted?

I've installed transmission-deamon on Raspbian. I've set it up to directly download on to a NAS share, which is mounted at /home/pi/nas/public via CIFS in /etc/fstab. All this generally works fine, except when the Pi restarts - either due to a power…
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Shared Windows Folder

I'm doing this beginners project with a motion sensor and a pi camera. With this I'll make a security camera. Since the SD card is really large on memory (compared to a HDD) I want the pi to send all my images/videos to my main (Windows 7) PC. I was…
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SMB Intermittent Time Out on Raspbmc

I am using my Raspberry Pi to stream video and audio content off of my Macbook through an SMB share. The content will stream perfectly when it works but the SMB connection seems to drop at least once a day, if not more often. When this happens,…
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Raspbian can't mount samba share on router

I have a usb drive connected to my router, it's a share, works fine from all our windows machines and from Ubuntu, but not from Raspbian. I got the IP-address with nmblookup -S WORKGROUP and the path with smbtree -N, and I can list it: pi@RPi2a ~…
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How do I connect raspberry pi to PC using ethernet for file sharing, while still using wifi for internet access?

I have been trying to set up a raspberry pi so that I can fileshare through samba with a windows PC using an ethernet cable, while still being able to connect to internet using WiFi. Right now I can connect to the pi occasionally through the…
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Sharing a DS40 Printer with CUPS

I am trying to set up a DS40 as a shared printer on a Raspberry Pi using CUPS. I have Raspbian and CUPS installed. I tried setting up the printer with the CUPS drivers included for this make/model, but printing was VERY slow, so I decided to try to…
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Resolving Windows Shares

RPi can access smb://$server/$share no problem through file manager RPi can not resolve //$server/$share RPi can not ping/nslookup //$server/$share RPi can ping IP address of //$server Looking like a DNS issue. How would I go about resolving this?…
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Is there a way to make a Transmission Torrent Server from a Pi?

I apologize in advance for the somewhat generic nature of this questions, but I am new to using my Pi. I had a thought recently of how I would like to serve up some of my own files as .torrents and would REALLY like to be able to do this from a…
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What is the best way to help my Raspberry Pi manage itself unattended?

I am about to reprogram my Raspberry Pi for its new purpose which is being the glue between all of my devices for my university work and other data. Basically, my Raspberry Pi will share drives to Macs and PCs over the network and via FTP. It will…
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