[ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-01 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Laptop with standard Ubuntu 10.04 desktop installed, Netbook with Ubuntu 10.04 Remix installed, both with Samba installed and all updates installed, both on same home (wireless) network. I have made the Public folder on each User to be shared, with read/write permissions and guest permissions

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-01 Thread Paul Morgan-Roach
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.comwrote: Why should the access be OK one way but not the other? Firewall rules? Samba server started? Check ufw status on both machines, and output netstat -auntp to see whether the necessary samba ports are open and samba

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-01 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 01/03/11 16:36, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com mailto:gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: Why should the access be OK one way but not the other? Firewall rules? Samba server started? Check ufw status on both machines, and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-01 Thread Paul Morgan-Roach
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.comwrote: On 01/03/11 16:36, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.comwrote: Why should the access be OK one way but not the other? Firewall rules? Samba server

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-01 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 01/03/11 16:51, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: You should get something similar to the following: $ sudo ufw status Status: active Status inactive. What does that imply? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-01 Thread Paul Morgan-Roach
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.comwrote: On 01/03/11 16:51, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: You should get something similar to the following: $ sudo ufw status Status: active Status inactive. What does that imply? It's not Iptables that's stopping the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-01 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 01/03/11 17:37, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: Did you run sudo netstat -auntp | grep samba That's interesting - that command doesn't give any output on EITHER machine -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast Season 4 - Live this evening!

2011-03-01 Thread Alan Pope
Hullo! At 20:30 UTC today the Ubuntu UK Podcast goes live with the 4th Season! If you're around and fancy listening in to us blather on for an hour about Ubuntu and the community around it then point your browser at:- http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/live/ The icecast stream URL (which is only

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-01 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 01/03/11 17:48, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 01/03/11 17:37, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: Did you run sudo netstat -auntp | grep samba That's interesting - that command doesn't give any output on EITHER machine OK. Update. It appears that installing Samba from the Ubuntu Software

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-01 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 01/03/11 18:11, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 01/03/11 17:48, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 01/03/11 17:37, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: Did you run sudo netstat -auntp | grep samba That's interesting - that command doesn't give any output on EITHER machine OK. Update. It

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-01 Thread Paul Morgan-Roach
I now have a problem sharing directories on the Netbook. If I right-click on a directory and choose Sharing Options and check the Share this folder box it now says : 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name Everyone to a SID. Memory allocation error. Ok - can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-01 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 01/03/11 18:33, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: I now have a problem sharing directories on the Netbook. If I right-click on a directory and choose Sharing Options and check the Share this folder box it now says : 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-01 Thread John MM
On 01/03/11 18:18, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 01/03/11 18:11, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 01/03/11 17:48, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 01/03/11 17:37, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: Did you run sudo netstat -auntp | grep samba That's interesting - that command doesn't give any

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-01 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 01/03/11 18:11, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: It appears that installing Samba from the Ubuntu Software Centre doesn't actually install Samba - it installs something else! I've now installed Samba4 from Synaptic and running sudo netstat -auntp | grep samba on both machines gives me something

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-01 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 01/03/11 18:45, Alan Lord (News) wrote: from any computer try smbtree as this will show you what Samba can see on the LAN. On both machines that command gives precisely nothing! Find your smb.conf and let people see what's in there too (obviously remove any sensitive data). The

[ubuntu-uk] Museum of Computing events

2011-03-01 Thread Dianne Reuby
For those of you within range of Swindon, here are some up-and-coming events: Mar 12 and 19 National Science and Engineering Week The theme is Communications, and we'll be having activities on both Saturdays for all ages. Standard admission charges. March 13 Tron gaming event / Metroplis / Tron

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Museum of Computing events

2011-03-01 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 20:09 +, Dianne Reuby wrote: snip May 14 Museums at Night - Overnight Games Programming Challenge 8pm to midnight. Remember the 1980's when the Sinclair Spectrum and Commodore 64 were deadly rivals? This was a time when anybody with a talent for programming could