On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 at 18:05, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@fastmail.us> wrote:
The boot problems are fixed with a new Fedora 32 instillation.

Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for help.

Glad to hear the new install worked.   

Presently Samba has been installed and appears to be near working . I
followed an instruction found at:
https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Fedora_32&p=samba&f=1


These instructions are for a different use case: "private" sharing of user's 
home directories via samba.
   
https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-32-simple-local-file-sharing-with-samba/ also
mentions sharing the same files with multiple users, which I gather is your use case. 

I copied the configuration file provided there and the server appears on
this computer under Networks. It contains no data yet. Before starting
this effort I copied the server data files to a second hard drive which
was disconnected in hope of keeping it to repopulate the new smb server.

Now I have to find the best way to transfer the data. i think I can
probably;y do that but will appreciate any advice.

rsync, but see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux/rsync


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George N. White III