Hello everyone,
in conclusion this thread seems like a mixture of different problems in relation with Samba shares and the Eclipse SmartHome Designer.
I can confirm, that the setup instructions in this documentation article were and still are correct. If you have issues of any kind, please check your setup once again. Your Linux host needs to provide a share for /etc/openhab2. The share needs to be mounted to a drive letter on your Windows machine:
If you are working with the openHABian system, your system provides one Samba share called “openHAB-share”. First mount the share to a drive letter, then open the subfolder “openhab2-conf” in the Eclipse SmartHome Designer.
If you are experiencing problems related to the Samba file sharing, expect them to be unrelated to the above and please create a new thread!
Happy Hacking 