On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:30 PM, julius von kohout < [email protected]> wrote:
> are you referring to root share or usershare? root shares work properly > and they are meant to be done by fiddling with smb.conf > I don't understand the distinction you're making. This bug report was about attempting to share files in Nautilus- is that a 'root share' or a 'usershare'? I don't have the old setup to test any more. I've since rebuilt the computer and it now runs Debian Sid. The samba shares are the same, but I did not try to use Nautilus to set them up (I use xfce now). What I was trying to accomplish was an anonymous public read-only share on /media/share. It didn't work then (using Nautilus) and it doesn't work now (having tried via editing smb.conf and using 'net usershare'). Samba currently doesn't work at all: when I try to connect, I get error "could not download share list from server". When it does work (apparently at random), samba *always* prompts for a username and password, regardless of configuration. When configured with username and password, it sometimes works and sometimes does not. The workaround cited in my report stopped working a day or so later. I should have updated the report at that time, but the bug was marked 'invalid' anyway and I was too discouraged to mess with it any further. I don't need samba for authenticated shares, sshfs works fine for that. Thanks for the information and advice, I'm sorry that it doesn't apply more directly to the situation at hand. I tried to test permissions for 'nobody' on the shared directory, but I can't su to nobody. The directory's mode is 744 if that helps. > user share via nautilus does not work properly > > private shares with password (its automatically your login password) > work. > > public (guest) shares in the home directory dont work because samba > cannot cd into /home because /home defaul permissons are to strict for > "nobody" which is the guest/public samba user. > > i had a long talk with the maintainer of nautilus-share. there are > several possible fixes. > > 1. set homedirectoy permissons for "eveyone else" properly > 2. add force user = owner of the /home/'your username' directoy to smb.con > and map to guest = bad password > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/592610 > > Title: > Shared folders (through Samba) when following instructions sometimes > does not work correctly > > Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: samba > > SUMMARY: > > Following instructions to create a shared folder through Nautilus > (right-click > Sharing Options > Share this folder, and following the > subsequent prompts) does not always work. > > For some people, it works immediately. For other people, a solution > has been found, which requires extra steps. > > I found this a problem across a small network of five computers: > - one 64-bit Ubuntu (Lucid 10.04) > - two 32-bit Ubuntu (Lucid 10.04) > - one 32-bit Xubuntu (Lucid 10.04) > - one Windows Vista. > Every Ubuntu computer had the identical problem. > > Other people have reported having this problem. Examples: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1491092 > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1502265 > > SYMPTOMS: > > When it works, everything works properly and quickly. But when it does > not work... > > The shares appear to be created correctly. Using terminal commands, it > is found that the machines do in fact connect. However, in Nautilus, > the network takes approximately a minute to respond and then fails to > find the shares. > > DISCOVERED SOLUTION: > > 1. Add the following two lines under the [global] section in file > /etc/smb.conf in every Ubuntu and Xubuntu machine: > os level = 33 > name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins > > 2. Reboot. > > 3. Some people find that they have to experiment with the order of > items in "name resolve order". > > EXTRA INFORMATION: > > Package versions according to Synaptic (from the default repositories): > - samba 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3 > - nautilus-share 0.7.2-12build1 > - system-config-samba 1.2.63-0ubuntu4 > > REQUIRED ACTION: > > Shared folders should work through the GUI without workarounds and > fiddling, just as Windows and Mac do. It should not be necessary to > get onto the forum, search, and mess with /etc/smb.conf. (It took over > a week for me to discover the answer.) > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 > Package: samba 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 > Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64 > Architecture: amd64 > CheckboxSubmission: 5bf569339afeaacf6d8dcc180d0a06f0 > CheckboxSystem: b1865df84255b8716d3bcc269ff410d1 > Date: Fri Jun 11 11:33:18 2010 > EcryptfsInUse: Yes > InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 > (20100429) > ProcEnviron: > PATH=(custom, user) > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > RelatedPackageVersions: > nautilus 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1 > gvfs 1.6.1-0ubuntu1build1 > SambaClientRegression: Yes > SourcePackage: samba > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/592610/+subscriptions > -- <a href="http://www.fsf.org/fb";><img src=" http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/no-facebook-me.png"; alt="Not f'd — you won't find me on Facebook" /></a> -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/592610 Title: Shared folders (through Samba) when following instructions sometimes does not work correctly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/592610/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
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