[Bug 214556] Re: [Hardy] Can't share files
I have been using ubuntu for years now. I have had an interesting experience with Hardy and file sharing. My home network if fairly complicated - I have a seanix pentium 4 1.5gb ram dual harddrive which dual boots xp / ubuntu. My new desktop = dell amd dual core 2gb ram dual boot vista/ubuntu. I have an old sony vaio laptop with ext cdrom, running ubuntu. My wife has a lenovo laptop running xp and a dell desktop running vista home premium. Needless to say I have spent days, weeks, maybe months keeping everything working over the last several years with each upgrade - I am a ubuntu junky. The old desktop(Seanix) has been my file server for the rest of the house actually running xp with ubuntu 7.10(most recently) in a vmware virtual machine as the actual file server - lastest version all working well was gutsy. By working well, I mean every computer had access to our photos and music and movie collection with no password and my wife and I both had home folders available on all the machines with password protection. The only reason my server ran xp with virtual ubuntu was my old printer wouldn't work with ubuntu, nor would my scanner. My printer broke so I got a new one, I got a new scanner -carefully choosen to work with linux. So now is the time to get rid of the last of windows. I downloaded hardy heron i386 desktop and burned one cd. I installed it on my newer Dell desktop to try it out. Printer, scanner work and share. File sharing works out of the box. All looks great. So I use the same install cd on the Seanix, Install hardy heron on its own partition with a separate partition for the home folder. AND file sharing is broken. Non of the folders are shared properly, even the ubuntu machines don't share well any more. I got all of the error messages about net usershare = permission denied etc. I learned about net usershare.I edited my smb.conf(repeatedly) I did the logout/login and even reboot suggestions and still NO proper sharing. I tried all combinations of sharing options after R clicking nautilus folders. There seemed no rhyme or reason to what happened. Allow guest = still need password, no guest - everyone had access to my home folder. It is interesting that some users install hardy and everything works out of the box. Other install hardy and have a nightmare with sharing. I have had both - the only difference being the machine that I installed hardy on. I am not a computer expert, but I hope that this information gets into the hands of someone who can make some sense of it. I have now reinstalled Gutsy on the Seanix - file server and my home network is back to HAPPY with all working well. I would be pleased to send any specific information about the machines, installation, or anything else if someone with the knowhow can help sort out this problem. I am now windows free but would like to have hardy running on all my machines. Thanks for your patience with this long post - I hope that it helps ubuntu and hardy improve. swells5 is online now Report Post Edit/Delete Message -- [Hardy] Can't share files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214556 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
[Bug 214556] Re: [Hardy] Can't share files
On a brand new installation on Hardy (including samba-common) users are getting error: Samba's testparm returned error 1: Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf Processing section [printers] Processing section [print$] Loaded services file OK. ERROR: lock directory /var/run/samba does not exist ERROR: pid directory /var/run/samba does not exist Any idea when this will be triaged/looked at by devs? -- [Hardy] Can't share files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214556 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
[Bug 214556] Re: [Hardy] Can't share files
Here's a use case for the developers. Autie May has just installed Ubuntu for the first time and would like to share a file with Little Sue who brought her super snazzy new wifi laptop. She goes to create a share when she gets this (see attachment). She cannot share her files and gives up. ** Attachment added: Screenshot-File Manager.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14522694/Screenshot-File%20Manager.png ** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- [Hardy] Can't share files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214556 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
[Bug 214556] Re: [Hardy] Can't share files
From http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4884372#post4884372: The Sharing options still don't work, but I did manage to share folders properly through shares-admin (Alt+F2 - 'shares-admin' - run). I ended up adding 'shares-admin' to the System-Administration menu. -- [Hardy] Can't share files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214556 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
[Bug 214556] Re: [Hardy] Can't share files
I found this post: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu-help/118877 -samba-hardy.html - and when I did what they did and replaced my smb.conf with a skeleton one it did work properly, which suggests that there is an error in the way that Ubuntu handles the Samba conf file. Just to clarigy, I haven't touched anything to do with Samba until I had this error. I'm running the 64 bit version of hardy, dunno if that makes a difference. -- [Hardy] Can't share files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214556 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
[Bug 214556] Re: [Hardy] Can't share files
Could you try to connect to the share using smbclient from the command line ? ** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- [Hardy] Can't share files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214556 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
[Bug 214556] Re: [Hardy] Can't share files
Partrice, I have followed your instructions and still get the same error: The folder contents could not be displayed. Share couldn't be found. Perhaps it has recently been deleted. From the host itself (on 8.04) trying to look at its own share, the error is different: Unable to mount location - Failed to mount Windows share I still can't list/view/copy files from/to smb shares. Keep in mind that my subnet is not the standard 192.168.0.1 or 1.1, but 192.168.5.1 (if that makes any difference, but it shouldn't). Also are there any plans to create a meta-package that download all the smb packages and make the standard smb setup? It would be beneficial to have something like this in Add/Remove for new users who want to share with windows/mac users. -- [Hardy] Can't share files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214556 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
[Bug 214556] Re: [Hardy] Can't share files
** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = New -- [Hardy] Can't share files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214556 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
[Bug 214556] Re: [Hardy] Can't share files
DO : sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get install samba libpam-smbpass verify that your are in the group named sambashare. In terminal type groups if not go to user.group management and yourself to this group (samba share) after that, logout and login Create a dire named test on your desktop and try to share it -- [Hardy] Can't share files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214556 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
