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.
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
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.
**
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
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
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,
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 -
** 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
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
