Still affected in 16.04.6 upgraded from Trusty : the log in this machine shows
Mar 28 17:41:43 nux gnome-session[25837]: Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: « net usershare » returned error 255 : mkdir failed on directory /var/run/samba/msg.lock: Permission denied Mar 28 17:41:43 nux gnome-session[25837]: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error None file or directory of this kind Mar 28 17:41:43 nux gnome-session[25837]: Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing. even after I created /var/lib/samba/usershares and touch /var/run/samba/msg.lock (*): ~ ls -l /var/lib/samba/ total 8 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 march 4 2017 private drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 march 28 17:42 usershares # members sambashare me $ ls -l /var/run/samba/msg.lock -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 mars 28 18:55 /var/run/samba/msg.lock (*)Maybe I should have mkdir msg.lock ? Yes I should: $ net usershare info --long directory /var/run/samba/msg.lock isn't a directory # rm /var/run/samba/msg.lock # mkdir /var/run/samba/msg.lock Wait and see Here only nautilus-share is installed (I was prompted to install it by Files one day when I wanted to share a folder - Samba not installed : not prompted=no need) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus-share in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211966 Title: nautilus-share report a warning about missing /var/lib/samba/usershares Status in Apache2 Web Server: Invalid Status in OEM Priority Project: New Status in nautilus-share package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in samba package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: nautilus-share if you start nautilus from console you can see this error message: Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing. I assume it needs to create /var/lib/samba/usershares in the package To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/apache2/+bug/211966/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
