Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 04/03/11 07:09, Simon Greenwood wrote:
Check that you can ping either computer each way, that SMB sharing is 
set up on your netbook - it isn't installed by default as Gordon has 
pointed out, and you'll have to search for Samba in the Software Centre.


s/



Appologies, just woke up, forget what I just said about the directories 
inside samba directory, the ones I want to share have no locks. I'm 
wondering, what are the permissions/ownership for the samba directory 
itself? Maybe that is why I cant see in the samba directory.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 04/03/11 07:09, Simon Greenwood wrote:
Check that you can ping either computer each way, that SMB sharing is 
set up on your netbook - it isn't installed by default as Gordon has 
pointed out, and you'll have to search for Samba in the Software Centre.


s/


Um, when I look in the samba directory, it still has a lock on them. As 
far as having it installed, it is installed in Synaptic. How do I ping a 
machine?


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[Simon Greenwood]

On 3 March 2011 21:17, John MM  wrote:

>  On 03/03/11 19:57, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>
>>
>  No, that's OK at the moment. /var/lib/samba/usershares should contain
> files with the names of shares on your machine. These files should be owned
> by you. If they aren't, from terminal, type 'sudo chown
> : /var/lib/usershares/'.
>
>  You should have something like this:
> ls -l /var/lib/samba
> drwxrwx--T  2 root sambashare  4096 2011-02-09 20:30 usershares
> ls -l /var/lib/samba/usershares
> -rw-r--r-- 1 simong simong 78 2011-02-09 20:30 music
>
>  s/
>
>
> Well, got rid of the error 255, but still cant see the directories from the
> other computer, so something is still stopping the network.
>
>
Check that you can ping either computer each way, that SMB sharing is set up
on your netbook - it isn't installed by default as Gordon has pointed out,
and you'll have to search for Samba in the Software Centre.

s/


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Local Council Meeting

[Jacob Mansfield]

On 3 March 2011 22:08, Alan Bell 
 wrote:
>
> how did it go?


they've just bought outlook 2010, but they're gonna talk to their it guy and
i'm gonna send them some live CDs
so it went pretty well I think
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quiz Night!

[Isabell Long]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:58:25PM +, Alan Bell wrote:

[...] 

> We are going to hold a quiz night at some point in April.

Brilliant idea!

> click the linkie -> http://doodle.com/eucwzx2qdiiiqs5p <-

Done.

I.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quiz Night!

[Sean Miller]

Alas, work at Morrisons on Saturdays until 9pm so not going to happen :-(

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[ubuntu-uk] New Team Leader Wanted!

[Alan Pope]

I posted this on my blog. Am reposting here to reach as many people as possible.

The UK Ubuntu LoCo team has for some years now had a vote to choose a
new leader when the incumbent steps down. Well it’s that time of year
again as Dave Walker stepped down in an announcement to the Ubuntu UK
LoCo mailing list recently.

Since Dave stepped down we’ve been looking for a new Team Lead, but I
don’t think we’ve really promoted it enough, which might be one reason
why we’ve currently got only one candidate for the vote. I’d like to
ask members of the UK LoCo team to consider helping us out by standing
for the post of Team Leader.

The role is not an onerous one, but it does need someone committed,
who is willing to help guide the team over the next year or so. The
person selected will be a point of contact with Canonical and other
internal groups within the project, and with external organisations
too. There isn’t a tremendous workload, but the person should be on
hand to deal with requests in a timely fashion.

Traditionally we’ve allowed the outgoing team leader to choose the
method by which the next leader is chosen. This has been in place
since Nik Butler stepped down as leader back in 2007 and I got voted
in. At the time we used the somewhat inadequate poll system in
launchpad to figure out the winner. Since then the Ubuntu community
has moved towards condorcet voting, which is both fun, reliable and
very geeky :)

Every LoCo is different though, with their own ways of selecting a new
leader, point of contact or council and that’s often determined by
cultural traditions. As a rule the Ubuntu project doesn’t impose
leadership election processes on LoCo teams, so each is free to select
their own process.

So if you’re in the UK, and you’re interested in leading the team then
add yourself to this page on the wiki:-

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/2011Election

Cheers,
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[ubuntu-uk] Quiz Night!

[Alan Bell]

As you may have read in the minutes of the meeting this evening 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes/20110210 we are going to 
hold a quiz night at some point in April. Questions will be mostly about 
Ubuntu, or with an Ubuntuish kinda theme to them, and our quizmaster 
will be the quizbot that lives in the #ubuntu-trivia IRC channel which 
will be loaded up with a brand new set of questions at the start of the 
evening. It will be at 9PM on a Saturday in April, and it would be great 
if you could mark your availability on the poll just here -> 
http://doodle.com/eucwzx2qdiiiqs5p
We will try and set up a shared voice over IP conference thingie for the 
evening and of course there will be some rather thrilling prizes on offer.


click the linkie -> http://doodle.com/eucwzx2qdiiiqs5p <-

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Local Council Meeting

[Alan Bell]

On 31/01/11 19:11, Jacob Mansfield wrote:

does anybody recall the discussion about contacting your local council
members about ubuntu a while back?
Well I just got invited to a meeting to discuss this with David Lloyd!
I would be grateful if one or two others accompanied me to this
meeting as I am not the most experienced linux user out there.
for those who do not recall the discussion it was about persuading
local governments to switch to linux to save money in the latest
budget cuts.
for those who are interested please email me off-list
for those who are not sure if they can go, the meeting is at the
county hall, at 4.30 http://goo.gl/maps/r7sr
Jacob Mansfield
Programmer


how did it go?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 03/03/11 19:57, Simon Greenwood wrote:




No, that's OK at the moment. /var/lib/samba/usershares should contain 
files with the names of shares on your machine. These files should be 
owned by you. If they aren't, from terminal, type 'sudo chown 
: /var/lib/usershares/'.


You should have something like this:
ls -l /var/lib/samba
drwxrwx--T  2 root sambashare  4096 2011-02-09 20:30 usershares
ls -l /var/lib/samba/usershares
-rw-r--r-- 1 simong simong 78 2011-02-09 20:30 music

s/


Well, got rid of the error 255, but still cant see the directories from 
the other computer, so something is still stopping the network.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 03/03/11 19:57, Simon Greenwood wrote:
No, that's OK at the moment. /var/lib/samba/usershares should contain 
files with the names of shares on your machine. These files should be 
owned by you. If they aren't, from terminal, type 'sudo chown 
: /var/lib/usershares/'.


You should have something like this:
ls -l /var/lib/samba
drwxrwx--T  2 root sambashare  4096 2011-02-09 20:30 usershares
ls -l /var/lib/samba/usershares
-rw-r--r-- 1 simong simong 78 2011-02-09 20:30 music

s/



Yay, it worked, I managed to work it out, and get my Desktop to be 
shared. How do I make it so that all files in the folder are changed at 
once?


Just needed a little pointing in the right direction, that is all it too.

One question though, how secure is the now?

brilliant.told you I learn quick.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 03/03/11 19:57, Simon Greenwood wrote:


No, that's OK at the moment. /var/lib/samba/usershares should contain 
files with the names of shares on your machine. These files should be 
owned by you. If they aren't, from terminal, type 'sudo chown 
: /var/lib/usershares/'.


You should have something like this:
ls -l /var/lib/samba
drwxrwx--T  2 root sambashare  4096 2011-02-09 20:30 usershares
ls -l /var/lib/samba/usershares
-rw-r--r-- 1 simong simong 78 2011-02-09 20:30 music

s/


ok, after reading that a bit more, and fiddling a bit, I have managed to 
cd to usershares, and ls -l to view permissions. Funny thing, some of 
the files have username some have root. I get what you are trying to 
say, about changing permissions and ownership of directories inside 
usershares, but if I am in usershares, how does that change the command? 
I dont want to mess it up.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Android hit by rogue app viruses

[Anton Piatek]

I can't believe they compare Facebook to OSS. as if they are similar...

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Android hit by rogue app viruses

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On 3 Mar 2011 20:34, "Vince Marsters"  wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 20:24 +, Barry Titterton wrote:
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12633923
>>
>> They sound more like trojans than viruses to my untrained ear.
>> I expect the same would apply to any linux system if you installed a bad
>> software package; the malicious code would then be free to do what it
>> liked. Though it does say towards the end of the article that Google has
>> closed the vulnerabilities that the code was exploiting.
>>
>> The article also quoted Trend Micro having a swipe at Open Source saying
>> that it was "a very attractive criminal playground".
>>
>> Would the experts like to comment on my understanding of this, or on
>> security in general?
>
> They forgot (or I am going blind and missed it) that it was less than 5
> minutes after Google were alerted till the apps were removed from the
> store. Not bad going really
>
> As you said, they were boobytrapped with a trojan which was capable of
> sending loads of personal data and also downloading other malicious
> content.
>
> Vince
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Android hit by rogue app viruses

[Vince Marsters]

On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 20:24 +, Barry Titterton wrote:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12633923
> 
> They sound more like trojans than viruses to my untrained ear.
> I expect the same would apply to any linux system if you installed a bad
> software package; the malicious code would then be free to do what it
> liked. Though it does say towards the end of the article that Google has
> closed the vulnerabilities that the code was exploiting.
> 
> The article also quoted Trend Micro having a swipe at Open Source saying
> that it was "a very attractive criminal playground".
> 
> Would the experts like to comment on my understanding of this, or on
> security in general?

They forgot (or I am going blind and missed it) that it was less than 5
minutes after Google were alerted till the apps were removed from the
store. Not bad going really

As you said, they were boobytrapped with a trojan which was capable of
sending loads of personal data and also downloading other malicious
content.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 03/03/11 19:57, Simon Greenwood wrote:
No, that's OK at the moment. /var/lib/samba/usershares should contain 
files with the names of shares on your machine. These files should be 
owned by you. If they aren't, from terminal, type 'sudo chown 
: /var/lib/usershares/'.


You should have something like this:
ls -l /var/lib/samba
drwxrwx--T  2 root sambashare  4096 2011-02-09 20:30 usershares
ls -l /var/lib/samba/usershares
-rw-r--r-- 1 simong simong 78 2011-02-09 20:30 music

s/




Ok, when I try to cd to samba, it says no file or directory, even though 
I can see it. I can cd to /lib but that is it.


I wonder if that is why?

but when I do ls -l /var/lib/samba I get

drwxrwx--T  2 root sambashare  4096 2011-03-03 19:34 usershares

all other directories in that folder are root root

this is what else is in that directory

-rw---  1 root root   16384 2009-08-24 22:29 account_policy.tdb
-rw---  1 root root   77824 2009-08-24 22:29 group_mapping.ldb
-rw---  1 root root8192 2009-08-24 22:29 ntdrivers.tdb
-rw---  1 root root 696 2009-08-24 22:29 ntforms.tdb
-rw---  1 root root   20480 2010-10-15 19:48 ntprinters.tdb
-rw---  1 root root   36864 2011-03-03 19:33 passdb.tdb
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root4096 2009-08-24 22:29 perfmon
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root4096 2009-08-24 22:29 printers
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root4096 2011-03-01 18:26 private
-rw---  1 root root   36864 2009-10-14 21:00 registry.tdb
-rw---  1 root root   24576 2009-06-04 14:19 secrets.tdb
-rw---  1 root root   36864 2009-11-12 19:59 share_info.tdb
drwxrwx--T  2 root sambashare  4096 2011-03-03 19:34 usershares
-rw-r--r--  1 root root8192 2009-08-24 22:29 winbindd_idmap.tdb

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[ubuntu-uk] Android hit by rogue app viruses

[Barry Titterton]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12633923

They sound more like trojans than viruses to my untrained ear.
I expect the same would apply to any linux system if you installed a bad
software package; the malicious code would then be free to do what it
liked. Though it does say towards the end of the article that Google has
closed the vulnerabilities that the code was exploiting.

The article also quoted Trend Micro having a swipe at Open Source saying
that it was "a very attractive criminal playground".

Would the experts like to comment on my understanding of this, or on
security in general?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[Simon Greenwood]

On 3 March 2011 19:38, John MM  wrote:

>  On 03/03/11 18:50, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>
>
> On 3 March 2011 13:46, John MM  wrote:
>
>> On 03/03/11 13:54, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>>
>>> The lock means that they are owned by root or another user, but most
>>> likely root. I think I need to do this with a machine running Ubuntu in
>>> front of me, so I'll get back to you tonight.
>>>
>>> s/
>>>
>>
>>
>>  Ok, thank you.
>
>
>  OK, I'm home now...
>
>  Try this: open a terminal by clicking on Applications | Accessories |
> Terminal
> Check that you are a member of the sambashare group by typing 'id  user name>'. You'll get output like this:
> uid=1000(simong) gid=1000(simong)
> groups=1000(simong),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),29(audio),46(plugdev),104(fuse),110(netdev),111(lpadmin),119(admin),122(sambashare),123(vboxusers)
> If sambashare is in the list, do the following:
> Type 'sudo chgrp sambashare /var/lib/samba/usershares'
> Enter your password when prompted.
> This will let members of the sambashare group (you) write to the usershares
> folder, which would appear to resolve the problem that I googled. You might
> have to log out and log in again.
>
>  HTH
> s/
>
>
> Hi, sorry I just got this now. I tried that, and it doesnt seem to work.
> Now since entering sudo chgrp sambashare /var/lib/samba/usershares, I no
> longer have locks next to each directory, but I now have X's next to them.
> Now sure why that should have happened, I did exactly as you said. I can
> give the results to the output of id  if you want.
>
>
No, that's OK at the moment. /var/lib/samba/usershares should contain files
with the names of shares on your machine. These files should be owned by
you. If they aren't, from terminal, type 'sudo chown :
/var/lib/usershares/'.

You should have something like this:
ls -l /var/lib/samba
drwxrwx--T  2 root sambashare  4096 2011-02-09 20:30 usershares
ls -l /var/lib/samba/usershares
-rw-r--r-- 1 simong simong 78 2011-02-09 20:30 music

s/

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 03/03/11 18:50, Simon Greenwood wrote:



On 3 March 2011 13:46, John MM > wrote:


On 03/03/11 13:54, Simon Greenwood wrote:

The lock means that they are owned by root or another user,
but most likely root. I think I need to do this with a machine
running Ubuntu in front of me, so I'll get back to you tonight.

s/



Ok, thank you.


OK, I'm home now...

Try this: open a terminal by clicking on Applications | Accessories | 
Terminal
Check that you are a member of the sambashare group by typing 'id 
'. You'll get output like this:
uid=1000(simong) gid=1000(simong) 
groups=1000(simong),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),29(audio),46(plugdev),104(fuse),110(netdev),111(lpadmin),119(admin),122(sambashare),123(vboxusers)

If sambashare is in the list, do the following:
Type 'sudo chgrp sambashare /var/lib/samba/usershares'
Enter your password when prompted.
This will let members of the sambashare group (you) write to the 
usershares folder, which would appear to resolve the problem that I 
googled. You might have to log out and log in again.


HTH
s/


Hi, sorry I just got this now. I tried that, and it doesnt seem to work. 
Now since entering sudo chgrp sambashare /var/lib/samba/usershares, I no 
longer have locks next to each directory, but I now have X's next to 
them. Now sure why that should have happened, I did exactly as you said. 
I can give the results to the output of id  if you want.



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[Simon Greenwood]

On 3 March 2011 13:46, John MM  wrote:

> On 03/03/11 13:54, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>> The lock means that they are owned by root or another user, but most
>> likely root. I think I need to do this with a machine running Ubuntu in
>> front of me, so I'll get back to you tonight.
>>
>> s/
>>
>
>
> Ok, thank you.
>

OK, I'm home now...

Try this: open a terminal by clicking on Applications | Accessories |
Terminal
Check that you are a member of the sambashare group by typing 'id '. You'll get output like this:
uid=1000(simong) gid=1000(simong)
groups=1000(simong),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),29(audio),46(plugdev),104(fuse),110(netdev),111(lpadmin),119(admin),122(sambashare),123(vboxusers)
If sambashare is in the list, do the following:
Type 'sudo chgrp sambashare /var/lib/samba/usershares'
Enter your password when prompted.
This will let members of the sambashare group (you) write to the usershares
folder, which would appear to resolve the problem that I googled. You might
have to log out and log in again.

HTH
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] New twist on file sharing.

[Rob Beard]

Quoting Gordon Burgess-Parker :

On both my Netbook and Laptop, if I do System-Preferences-Personal  
File Sharing the dialog box tells me that "This feature cannot be  
enabled because the required packages are not installed on your  
system"
NO mention WHATSOEVER of what packages ARE required. What a stupid  
Windows-like error message. How the hell do I find out what packages  
ARE required?




Hmm, could be Samba or maybe even some Bluetooth packages.  I do agree  
though, a list of packages, some pointers our even the offer to  
install the missing packages would be useful.


Sadly I can't tell you exactly which packages you'd need as I'm not  
near a PC at the mo (just on my mobile).


Rob






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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Verify DMI ?

[Neil Perry]

Found this.

"Verifying DMI Pool data, basically means that when your computer goes
through POST (power on self test) - it is checking to see what devices/irq's
are assigned to each bit of hardware in your machine.

If you can get into your BIOS (usually DEL at POST); you can go to your
configuration and 'reset' Configuration Data (Force Update ESCD).

If this doesnt help, try resetting the BIOS entirely.

Verifying DMI Pool data happens just before your CDROM drive gets spun up to
check for boot media; perhaps try unplugging your CDROM drive and seeing if
you get past this message."

Neil Perry


On 3 March 2011 17:11, Ted Wager  wrote:

> I get a message on bootup VerifY DMI and the system hangs..This is when
> I try to boot with a live cd/usb or from hda..I can call hda to boot
> from my hdb grub installation and the system will boot ok..Any ideas
> what I should be looking for ?..I canot use a system rescue disk as I
> cannot get it to boot
>
>
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[ubuntu-uk] Verify DMI ?

[Ted Wager]

I get a message on bootup VerifY DMI and the system hangs..This is when
I try to boot with a live cd/usb or from hda..I can call hda to boot
from my hdb grub installation and the system will boot ok..Any ideas
what I should be looking for ?..I canot use a system rescue disk as I
cannot get it to boot


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] New twist on file sharing.

[bodsda]

And don't you just love it when software developers disable copying text from 
their dialogue windows :) haha

Bodsda 
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Sent: 3 Mar 2011 14:02

On 3 March 2011 13:52, Gordon Burgess-Parker  wrote:
> On both my Netbook and Laptop, if I do System-Preferences-Personal File
> Sharing the dialog box tells me that "This feature cannot be enabled because
> the required packages are not installed on your system"
> NO mention WHATSOEVER of what packages ARE required. What a stupid
> Windows-like error message. How the hell do I find out what packages ARE
> required?

Congratulations!

You have found a bug!

Luckily it's already been reported by another user.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-user-share/+bug/536766

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"When getting error messages, paste them into your favourite search
engine to see if it's a known issue."

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 03/03/11 13:54, Simon Greenwood wrote:
The lock means that they are owned by root or another user, but most 
likely root. I think I need to do this with a machine running Ubuntu 
in front of me, so I'll get back to you tonight.


s/



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] New twist on file sharing.

[Alan Pope]

On 3 March 2011 13:52, Gordon Burgess-Parker  wrote:
> On both my Netbook and Laptop, if I do System-Preferences-Personal File
> Sharing the dialog box tells me that "This feature cannot be enabled because
> the required packages are not installed on your system"
> NO mention WHATSOEVER of what packages ARE required. What a stupid
> Windows-like error message. How the hell do I find out what packages ARE
> required?

Congratulations!

You have found a bug!

Luckily it's already been reported by another user.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-user-share/+bug/536766

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[Simon Greenwood]

On 3 March 2011 13:23, John MM  wrote:

> On 03/03/11 13:19, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>> running 'smbtree -D 
>>
>
> How do I find out what domain is, is it my IP address or what?
>

A Windows domain is the name given to an office network that is managed by a
domain controller, which is a server. I don't think you've got a domain in
that respect, so I think we're going off in the wrong direction.


> As far as this machine, it seems if I go to /var/lib/samba/usershares all
> the files in there are locked. They have a lock on them. Before updating to
> 10.04, I could go into Places, Network, and in there would be a Windows Icon
> and a Ubuntu Icon, both of which if I clicked on them, would mount the
> respective directories. Now it seems its locked me out. Plus if I go the
> same as the op to a directory I want to share, as root, it shows I can
> share, as me I am locked out.
>
> I is a dual booting machine, running 10.10 Ubuntu.
>
>
The lock means that they are owned by root or another user, but most likely
root. I think I need to do this with a machine running Ubuntu in front of
me, so I'll get back to you tonight.

s/

>
>

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

Just to show, when I try to share, the message I get is

'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: failed to add 
share documents. Error was Operation not permitted'


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[ubuntu-uk] New twist on file sharing.

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

On both my Netbook and Laptop, if I do System-Preferences-Personal File 
Sharing the dialog box tells me that "This feature cannot be enabled 
because the required packages are not installed on your system"
NO mention WHATSOEVER of what packages ARE required. What a stupid 
Windows-like error message. How the hell do I find out what packages ARE 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 03/03/11 13:19, Simon Greenwood wrote:

running 'smbtree -D 


How do I find out what domain is, is it my IP address or what?

As far as this machine, it seems if I go to /var/lib/samba/usershares 
all the files in there are locked. They have a lock on them. Before 
updating to 10.04, I could go into Places, Network, and in there would 
be a Windows Icon and a Ubuntu Icon, both of which if I clicked on them, 
would mount the respective directories. Now it seems its locked me out. 
Plus if I go the same as the op to a directory I want to share, as root, 
it shows I can share, as me I am locked out.


I is a dual booting machine, running 10.10 Ubuntu.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[Simon Greenwood]

On 3 March 2011 12:26, John MM  wrote:

>  On 03/03/11 12:17, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
> OK, I've just had a look back for your original query, and it would appear
> that you're trying to connect two machines running Ubuntu using Samba. The
> people who replied suggested that you don't use Samba and use SSHFS instead,
> which is built into Nautilus, the reason being that Samba is an
> implementation of Microsoft's SMB networking protocol that is mostly reverse
> engineered, and as such is not well documented and prone to bugs. I have no
> other information than that which I looked up and found here:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1026668, for which the remedy
> appears to be add your user to the group 'sambashares', change the group
> permission on the directory /var/lib/samba/usershares and possibly log in
> and log out.
>
> Ok, I had a clean install of my other netbook, in Network, it has two
> Icons, one for Windows, one for Ubuntu, both of which I can click on, and
> open the directories I want. In the problem computer, Only the Windows Icon
> is there, and if clicked on it gives an error 'unable to mount'. I get the
> error 255 the same way as the OP gets it.
>
> Now, what you mentione above, how would I go about doing what you
> suggested, which I have added in red colour? I dont have the experience you
> have. I am a quick learner though, but I need to be shown.
>

Right, your computers are both detecting that you have a Windows network. I
*assume*, and I don't know this as I don't currently have an Ubuntu machine
to hand, that your netbook is detecting some kind of native Ubuntu share. In
the Windows network you should be able to see any Windows machines on your
network that have the same workgroup or Windows domain. I can't remember how
to set this up off the top of my head, but that is basically what you need
to do.


> In response to your second reply, yes, I probably did as it's something
> that I know a bit about and have experience in similar problems. However, I
> don't know anything about your problem so I am using Google and can only
> give you the same response that Google would give you, which seems to be a
> valid one.
>
>
> So, with the experience you have, what do you need to know, in order for
> you to make any form of judgement? I can only give information based on my
> knowledge, which isnt huge.
>
> I am just asking a questsion, I am not making any demands.
>
>
You're misunderstanding me here: I mean information relating to a solution
to the problem that you have, which I don't have, short of searching for it,
which you can do yourself. I'm not trying to fob you off, merely suggesting
that much of what you want to know will be available on the web and indeed
using man and info at the command line. The situation with smbtree is that
what is available is basically the man page. I'm not familiar with it and I
don't know even whether it's present in Ubuntu, but from the man page,
running 'smbtree -D  would appear to give you a list of machines in
your domain if you have one.

As to your second response to this, would I be correct in assuming that you
have a dual booting machine? You will be able to see your Windows file
system in Ubuntu as Ubuntu mounts it, but you can't see your Ubuntu
partition in Windows as Windows can't see the Ubuntu filesystem. However,
Windows is not running when Ubuntu is running and as such would not be
visible on your network. Does that make sense?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 03/03/11 12:40, Simon Greenwood wrote:
As far as I'm concerned, absolutely nothing. A similar question 
doesn't necessarily have a similar answer. I have to point out that 
you were given a solution, which was basically 'don't use samba', 
which I think is a reasonable reply. I have to admit that I would 
automatically use samba in such a situation myself as I have Linux 
machines, Windows machines and Macs at home and it's really the only 
common protocol for sharing directories across all three platforms, 
but for Ubuntu-only, there are other solutions.


s/


As per the op, if you didnt know something I saw that you asked him, so 
what makes that any different to my situation, but instead of asking me, 
I got a whole different thing altogether. Why is it that you ask one 
person, and not another? Not directed at just one person.


I think in my origional message I talked about windows directory, when I 
mentioned the Icons in Network. and not being able to mount on one. On 
this machine I am using, its a windows machine, with my Ubuntu 
partitioned. I can get to see the windows partition, but going to 
Filesystem, but this machine cannot be found using the network. I asked 
about using SSH, because it was something that maybe I might have been 
able to use, but I could work out how to use it.


How do I get smbtree to even come up. Where is it? Maybe if I could get 
that to work, I might get a reason why thispc wont share?





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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 03/03/11 12:17, Simon Greenwood wrote:
OK, I've just had a look back for your original query, and it would 
appear that you're trying to connect two machines running Ubuntu using 
Samba. The people who replied suggested that you don't use Samba and 
use SSHFS instead, which is built into Nautilus, the reason being that 
Samba is an implementation of Microsoft's SMB networking protocol that 
is mostly reverse engineered, and as such is not well documented and 
prone to bugs. I have no other information than that which I looked up 
and found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1026668, for 
which the remedy appears to be add your user to the group 
'sambashares', change the group permission on the directory 
/var/lib/samba/usershares and possibly log in and log out.
Ok, I had a clean install of my other netbook, in Network, it has two 
Icons, one for Windows, one for Ubuntu, both of which I can click on, 
and open the directories I want. In the problem computer, Only the 
Windows Icon is there, and if clicked on it gives an error 'unable to 
mount'. I get the error 255 the same way as the OP gets it.


Now, what you mentione above, how would I go about doing what you 
suggested, which I have added in red colour? I dont have the experience 
you have. I am a quick learner though, but I need to be shown.


In response to your second reply, yes, I probably did as it's 
something that I know a bit about and have experience in similar 
problems. However, I don't know anything about your problem so I am 
using Google and can only give you the same response that Google would 
give you, which seems to be a valid one.


So, with the experience you have, what do you need to know, in order for 
you to make any form of judgement? I can only give information based on 
my knowledge, which isnt huge.


I am just asking a questsion, I am not making any demands.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[Simon Greenwood]

On 3 March 2011 12:08, John MM  wrote:

> On 03/03/11 12:17, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>> OK, I've just had a look back for your original query, and it would appear
>> that you're trying to connect two machines running Ubuntu using Samba. The
>> people who replied suggested that you don't use Samba and use SSHFS instead,
>> which is built into Nautilus, the reason being that Samba is an
>> implementation of Microsoft's SMB networking protocol that is mostly reverse
>> engineered, and as such is not well documented and prone to bugs. I have no
>> other information than that which I looked up and found here:
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1026668, for which the remedy
>> appears to be add your user to the group 'sambashares', change the group
>> permission on the directory /var/lib/samba/usershares and possibly log in
>> and log out.
>>
>> In response to your second reply, yes, I probably did as it's something
>> that I know a bit about and have experience in similar problems. However, I
>> don't know anything about your problem so I am using Google and can only
>> give you the same response that Google would give you, which seems to be a
>> valid one.
>>
>> This is how mailing lists and message boards and the like work. People are
>> doing this because they have experience to offer, but only if it's relevant
>> to a problem. If they have no experience in a problem then there is no point
>> in trying to offer something other than known facts.
>>
>> One of the major things about Ubuntu is that there is a wealth of
>> information available and that other people may have had similar problems,
>> and the way to find that is to use the search engine of your choice. No-one
>> is obliged to give you an answer, but many will try to help within reason.
>>
>> s/
>>
>
> Ok, I appreciate that, but is very frustrating, when an op comes along with
> a similar problem, they get asked questions, given help, and none of this
> 'we help you because we can, and not because we have to attitude, I asked a
> question, the same as the op, I do feel like I am being pushed away.
> Esecially since a similar question is being put forward. Why are you
> bringing that up. What is the difference between the op asking a quesiton
> and me asking a question.
>
>
As far as I'm concerned, absolutely nothing. A similar question doesn't
necessarily have a similar answer. I have to point out that you were given a
solution, which was basically 'don't use samba', which I think is a
reasonable reply. I have to admit that I would automatically use samba in
such a situation myself as I have Linux machines, Windows machines and Macs
at home and it's really the only common protocol for sharing directories
across all three platforms, but for Ubuntu-only, there are other solutions.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[Simon Greenwood]

On 3 March 2011 12:23, Alan Lord (News)  wrote:

> On 03/03/11 12:17, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>> OK, I've just had a look back for your original query, and it would
>> appear that you're trying to connect two machines running Ubuntu using
>> Samba. The people who replied suggested that you don't use Samba and use
>> SSHFS instead, which is built into Nautilus, the reason being that Samba
>> is an implementation of Microsoft's SMB networking protocol that is
>> mostly reverse engineered, and as such is not well documented and prone
>> to bugs.
>>
>
> Erm, that's not actually correct.
>
> This is no longer the case http://news.samba.org/announcements/pfif/
>
> 20 December 2007
> Samba Team Receives Microsoft Protocol Docs
>
> Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit
> organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement
> with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully
> interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to
> make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba.
>
> Microsoft was required to make this information available to competitors as
> part of the European Commission March 24th 2004 Decision in the antitrust
> lawsuit, after losing their appeal against that decision on September 17th
> 2007.
>
>
Yes, I know about that, but I thought that the full implementation is only
in Samba 4. I genuinely don't know how much has been ported into 3, which is
still the version in most Linux distributions. I am a bit out of date with
it.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 03/03/11 12:17, Simon Greenwood wrote:
OK, I've just had a look back for your original query, and it would 
appear that you're trying to connect two machines running Ubuntu using 
Samba. The people who replied suggested that you don't use Samba and 
use SSHFS instead, which is built into Nautilus, the reason being that 
Samba is an implementation of Microsoft's SMB networking protocol that 
is mostly reverse engineered, and as such is not well documented and 
prone to bugs. I have no other information than that which I looked up 
and found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1026668, for 
which the remedy appears to be add your user to the group 
'sambashares', change the group permission on the directory 
/var/lib/samba/usershares and possibly log in and log out.


In response to your second reply, yes, I probably did as it's 
something that I know a bit about and have experience in similar 
problems. However, I don't know anything about your problem so I am 
using Google and can only give you the same response that Google would 
give you, which seems to be a valid one.


This is how mailing lists and message boards and the like work. People 
are doing this because they have experience to offer, but only if it's 
relevant to a problem. If they have no experience in a problem then 
there is no point in trying to offer something other than known facts.


One of the major things about Ubuntu is that there is a wealth of 
information available and that other people may have had similar 
problems, and the way to find that is to use the search engine of your 
choice. No-one is obliged to give you an answer, but many will try to 
help within reason.


s/


Ok, I appreciate that, but is very frustrating, when an op comes along 
with a similar problem, they get asked questions, given help, and none 
of this 'we help you because we can, and not because we have to 
attitude, I asked a question, the same as the op, I do feel like I am 
being pushed away. Esecially since a similar question is being put 
forward. Why are you bringing that up. What is the difference between 
the op asking a quesiton and me asking a question.




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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 03/03/11 12:17, Simon Greenwood wrote:

OK, I've just had a look back for your original query, and it would
appear that you're trying to connect two machines running Ubuntu using
Samba. The people who replied suggested that you don't use Samba and use
SSHFS instead, which is built into Nautilus, the reason being that Samba
is an implementation of Microsoft's SMB networking protocol that is
mostly reverse engineered, and as such is not well documented and prone
to bugs.


Erm, that's not actually correct.

This is no longer the case http://news.samba.org/announcements/pfif/

20 December 2007
Samba Team Receives Microsoft Protocol Docs

Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit 
organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an 
agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to 
fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products 
and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba.


Microsoft was required to make this information available to competitors 
as part of the European Commission March 24th 2004 Decision in the 
antitrust lawsuit, after losing their appeal against that decision on 
September 17th 2007.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 03/03/11 12:13, Alan Lord (News) wrote:

On 03/03/11 11:47, John MM wrote:


I did actaully say I had the same problem the error 255, you must have
missed the e-mail.



"
Hi, Has anybody managed to get this sorted, has it been taken off 
list. I have been trying to follow what is going on, but the thread 
seems to have dried up, can somebldy still help?


what is smbtree?
"

Nope. That's the *full* text of message I replied to (I thought I was 
being helpful), with a quick and comprehensive answer.


If you have a particular problem you might be better to start a new 
thread describing the issue you have with as much detail and symptoms 
as you can.


Cheers

Al


I havent started a new thread, because this one, as I have pointed out, 
deals with the same I am having, with the error 255. It was started to 
be dealt with, then stopped. Which indicated it had gone off board. It 
seems strange to me so much effort is being taken to point out my short 
comings, and get told to go use 'man' and google, and unlike the op 
actually get some form of help. Why is it different? Now, its become a 
flame, I never intended that.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[Simon Greenwood]

On 3 March 2011 11:34, John MM  wrote:

> On 03/03/11 11:44, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>> A quick Google would also show that there isn't much more to know than
>> what is in the man page. Smbtree prints a list of available servers and
>> devices in your domain in the same way as Network Neighborhood does in
>> Windows, but it does it on the command line, through Terminal in Ubuntu. If
>> you have a use for that, then use it. If you don't, and unless you have
>> machines that have SMB shares that don't have some kind of GUI, then you
>> probably don't.
>>
>> In my experience, if you don't get an answer to a question on a mailing
>> list or forum it's because no-one reading has an answer. This is just a fact
>> of life. However, if you google 'samba error 255 ubuntu' you will find a lot
>> of data relating to the problem that causes it. It appears to relate to
>> permissions on /var/lib/samba/usershares.
>>
>> s/
>>
>
> But in response to this, the op was getting an answer, through the group,
> which then suddenly stopped, which indicatges it went off board. Its kind of
> frustratng seeing the answer unfold, for it to stop unfolding. Its also kind
> of frustrating having asked the same questions, to have gotten nowhere,
> previously.
>
> I have looked, via google, tried a few things, but most of which are over
> my head, which is why I attempted to ask here.
>
> You mention permissions relating to /var/lib/samba/usershares I have no
> idea what that means, could you explain a little bit more.
>
>
OK, I've just had a look back for your original query, and it would appear
that you're trying to connect two machines running Ubuntu using Samba. The
people who replied suggested that you don't use Samba and use SSHFS instead,
which is built into Nautilus, the reason being that Samba is an
implementation of Microsoft's SMB networking protocol that is mostly reverse
engineered, and as such is not well documented and prone to bugs. I have no
other information than that which I looked up and found here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1026668, for which the remedy
appears to be add your user to the group 'sambashares', change the group
permission on the directory /var/lib/samba/usershares and possibly log in
and log out.

In response to your second reply, yes, I probably did as it's something that
I know a bit about and have experience in similar problems. However, I don't
know anything about your problem so I am using Google and can only give you
the same response that Google would give you, which seems to be a valid one.

This is how mailing lists and message boards and the like work. People are
doing this because they have experience to offer, but only if it's relevant
to a problem. If they have no experience in a problem then there is no point
in trying to offer something other than known facts.

One of the major things about Ubuntu is that there is a wealth of
information available and that other people may have had similar problems,
and the way to find that is to use the search engine of your choice. No-one
is obliged to give you an answer, but many will try to help within reason.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 03/03/11 11:47, John MM wrote:


I did actaully say I had the same problem the error 255, you must have
missed the e-mail.



"
Hi, Has anybody managed to get this sorted, has it been taken off list. 
I have been trying to follow what is going on, but the thread seems to 
have dried up, can somebldy still help?


what is smbtree?
"

Nope. That's the *full* text of message I replied to (I thought I was 
being helpful), with a quick and comprehensive answer.


If you have a particular problem you might be better to start a new 
thread describing the issue you have with as much detail and symptoms as 
you can.


Cheers

Al


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 03/03/11 12:00, Alan Lord (News) wrote:

On 03/03/11 11:01, John MM wrote:


Um, ok 'man' has been proven to be difficult to understand even by the
best of you, it isnt written for newbies, and I look at it, and it makes
absoluteluy no sense to me at all.


What is hard to understand?

"smbtree is a smb browser program in text mode. It is similar to the 
"Network Neighborhood" found on Windows computers. It prints a tree 
with all the known domains, the servers in those domains and the 
shares on the servers. "



Why the sarcasm, all I have done is ask a question based on this thread?
I wasnt being nasty. So why the attitude?


I wasn't being sarcastic at all. I replied to your question with the 
answer.




The sarcastic answer still doesnt help, how can I use smbtree to help
me. You were going to help the OP, what is different with my question? I
have found out more in htis thread, than at any other time, when I have
asked similar questions about error 255, but the thread stopped, and has
gone nowhere. So I know there is an answer there somewhere. I just
wondered if somebody could help,


Erm, I wasn't being sarcastic. You didn't say you had a problem, you 
asked what smbtree was. I supplied a comprehensive answer IMHO.


Al 


I did actaully say I had the same problem the error 255, you must have 
missed the e-mail.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 03/03/11 11:01, John MM wrote:


Um, ok 'man' has been proven to be difficult to understand even by the
best of you, it isnt written for newbies, and I look at it, and it makes
absoluteluy no sense to me at all.


What is hard to understand?

"smbtree is a smb browser program in text mode. It is similar to the 
"Network Neighborhood" found on Windows computers. It prints a tree with 
all the known domains, the servers in those domains and the shares on 
the servers. "



Why the sarcasm, all I have done is ask a question based on this thread?
I wasnt being nasty. So why the attitude?


I wasn't being sarcastic at all. I replied to your question with the 
answer.




The sarcastic answer still doesnt help, how can I use smbtree to help
me. You were going to help the OP, what is different with my question? I
have found out more in htis thread, than at any other time, when I have
asked similar questions about error 255, but the thread stopped, and has
gone nowhere. So I know there is an answer there somewhere. I just
wondered if somebody could help,


Erm, I wasn't being sarcastic. You didn't say you had a problem, you 
asked what smbtree was. I supplied a comprehensive answer IMHO.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 03/03/11 11:44, Simon Greenwood wrote:
A quick Google would also show that there isn't much more to know than 
what is in the man page. Smbtree prints a list of available servers 
and devices in your domain in the same way as Network Neighborhood 
does in Windows, but it does it on the command line, through Terminal 
in Ubuntu. If you have a use for that, then use it. If you don't, and 
unless you have machines that have SMB shares that don't have some 
kind of GUI, then you probably don't.


In my experience, if you don't get an answer to a question on a 
mailing list or forum it's because no-one reading has an answer. This 
is just a fact of life. However, if you google 'samba error 255 
ubuntu' you will find a lot of data relating to the problem that 
causes it. It appears to relate to permissions on 
/var/lib/samba/usershares.


s/


Just out of a matter of interest, something doesnt add up here, you have 
answered quite at length to the OP's questions about Networking, yet, 
you reply to my question with, go google it. There is something not 
quite right there.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 03/03/11 11:44, Simon Greenwood wrote:
A quick Google would also show that there isn't much more to know than 
what is in the man page. Smbtree prints a list of available servers 
and devices in your domain in the same way as Network Neighborhood 
does in Windows, but it does it on the command line, through Terminal 
in Ubuntu. If you have a use for that, then use it. If you don't, and 
unless you have machines that have SMB shares that don't have some 
kind of GUI, then you probably don't.


In my experience, if you don't get an answer to a question on a 
mailing list or forum it's because no-one reading has an answer. This 
is just a fact of life. However, if you google 'samba error 255 
ubuntu' you will find a lot of data relating to the problem that 
causes it. It appears to relate to permissions on 
/var/lib/samba/usershares.


s/


But in response to this, the op was getting an answer, through the 
group, which then suddenly stopped, which indicatges it went off board. 
Its kind of frustratng seeing the answer unfold, for it to stop 
unfolding. Its also kind of frustrating having asked the same questions, 
to have gotten nowhere, previously.


I have looked, via google, tried a few things, but most of which are 
over my head, which is why I attempted to ask here.


You mention permissions relating to /var/lib/samba/usershares I have no 
idea what that means, could you explain a little bit more.




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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[Simon Greenwood]

On 3 March 2011 11:01, John MM  wrote:

> On 03/03/11 09:22, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
>
>> On 03/03/11 08:51, John MM wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> what is smbtree?
>>>
>>>
>> Open a terminal and type "man smbtree"
>>
>> NAME
>> smbtree - A text based smb network browser
>>
>> SYNOPSIS
>> smbtree [-b] [-D] [-S]
>>
>> DESCRIPTION
>> This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.
>>
>> smbtree is a smb browser program in text mode. It is similar to the
>> "Network Neighborhood" found on Windows computers. It prints a tree with all
>> the known domains, the servers in those domains and the shares on the
>> servers.
>>
>> Al
>>
>
> Um, ok 'man' has been proven to be difficult to understand even by the best
> of you, it isnt written for newbies, and I look at it, and it makes
> absoluteluy no sense to me at all.
>
> Why the sarcasm, all I have done is ask a question based on this thread? I
> wasnt being nasty. So why the attitude?
>
> The sarcastic answer still doesnt help, how can I use smbtree to help me.
> You were going to help the OP, what is different with my question? I have
> found out more in htis thread, than at any other time, when I have asked
> similar questions about error 255, but the thread stopped, and has gone
> nowhere. So I know there is an answer there somewhere. I just wondered if
> somebody could help,
>
> Thank you.
>
>
A quick Google would also show that there isn't much more to know than what
is in the man page. Smbtree prints a list of available servers and devices
in your domain in the same way as Network Neighborhood does in Windows, but
it does it on the command line, through Terminal in Ubuntu. If you have a
use for that, then use it. If you don't, and unless you have machines that
have SMB shares that don't have some kind of GUI, then you probably don't.

In my experience, if you don't get an answer to a question on a mailing list
or forum it's because no-one reading has an answer. This is just a fact of
life. However, if you google 'samba error 255 ubuntu' you will find a lot of
data relating to the problem that causes it. It appears to relate to
permissions on /var/lib/samba/usershares.

s/

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[ubuntu-uk] Display Resolution

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I have no idea why but a couple of restarts seems to have fixed the problem.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 03/03/11 09:22, Alan Lord (News) wrote:

On 03/03/11 08:51, John MM wrote:


what is smbtree?



Open a terminal and type "man smbtree"

NAME
smbtree - A text based smb network browser

SYNOPSIS
smbtree [-b] [-D] [-S]

DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.

smbtree is a smb browser program in text mode. It is similar to the 
"Network Neighborhood" found on Windows computers. It prints a tree 
with all the known domains, the servers in those domains and the 
shares on the servers.


Al


Um, ok 'man' has been proven to be difficult to understand even by the 
best of you, it isnt written for newbies, and I look at it, and it makes 
absoluteluy no sense to me at all.


Why the sarcasm, all I have done is ask a question based on this thread? 
I wasnt being nasty. So why the attitude?


The sarcastic answer still doesnt help, how can I use smbtree to help 
me. You were going to help the OP, what is different with my question? I 
have found out more in htis thread, than at any other time, when I have 
asked similar questions about error 255, but the thread stopped, and has 
gone nowhere. So I know there is an answer there somewhere. I just 
wondered if somebody could help,


Thank you.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 03/03/11 08:51, John MM wrote:


what is smbtree?



Open a terminal and type "man smbtree"

NAME
   smbtree - A text based smb network browser

SYNOPSIS
   smbtree [-b] [-D] [-S]

DESCRIPTION
   This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.

smbtree is a smb browser program in text mode. It is similar to the 
"Network Neighborhood" found on Windows computers. It prints a tree with 
all the known domains, the servers in those domains and the shares on 
the servers.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 01/03/11 18:45, Alan Lord (News) wrote:

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 like this:


Samba 4 is quite new and not really what most peeps use yet as far as 
I'm aware.


I'm running Samba 3.4.7 on my server (10.04) and a client machine 
(10.10) is showing 3.5.4. These are the standard versions AFAICT.


On my home server that runs samba I have to look for smb and nmb to 
find what if samba daemons are listening to the correct ports.


sudo netstat -auntp | grep nmbd

sudo netstat -auntp | grep smbd

These are the names of the Samba daemons. The samba client is part of 
the Linux kernel and does not need any extra software to use it.


from any computer try smbtree as this will show you what Samba can see 
on the LAN.


I'd suggest Googling for some Samba expert tips rather than blindly 
installing Samba4 possibly on on top of samba3.


Find your smb.conf and let people see what's in there too (obviously 
remove any sensitive data).


Al





Hi, Has anybody managed to get this sorted, has it been taken off list. 
I have been trying to follow what is going on, but the thread seems to 
have dried up, can somebldy still help?


what is smbtree?



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Display resolution

[Neil Greenwood]

On 3 Mar 2011, at 07:54, **  wrote:

I have an old Dell Latitude D600 and since a recent update, the  
maximum screen

resolution I can select is 800x600. Card and display details are:
***
jbrid@jbrid-Latitude-D600:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250  
[Mobility

FireGL 9000] (rev 02)
jbrid@jbrid-Latitude-D600:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 800 x 600, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS connected 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y  
axis) 0mm x 0mm

  1024x768   60.0 +   60.0
  1360x768   59.8
  800x60060.3*59.9
  848x48059.7
  720x48059.7
  640x48059.9 59.4
S-video connected 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y  
axis) 0mm x

0mm
  800x60059.9*+
  640x48059.9
***


Do you have the S-Video connector in? This section seems to say you  
have, and that the maximum resolution isn't 1024x768. Try unplugging  
it and logging out then back in.


It's just a guess, since I don't have an ATI card.

Cofion/Regards,
Neil


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