Public bug reported:
Using system-config-samba to change the Workgroup name does not affect
the Workgroup name displayed on remote computers. Tested on remote WinXP
and remote Debian Wheezy.
According to the help page for system-config-samba:
"After clicking OK, the changes are written to the configuration file and the
daemon is restarted; thus, the changes take effect immediately."
In fact the changes never take effect at all.
Changing the workgroup name manually in /etc/smbd.conf and then restarting smbd
(once with service smbd restart and then with service smbd stop followed by
service smbd start) has no effect on the workgroup displayed on remote
computers.
Thus it is IMPOSSIBLE to change the server's workgroup.
It is also impossible to create a globally readable read-only share. I
have been trying for three years to do this in Ubuntu and it has NEVER
WORKED.
The response of the server to clients' connection attempts are apparently
random, regardless of server settings. Sometimes the attempt gives an auth
dialog, but refuses any password. Sometimes it fails silently. Sometimes it
gives a permissions error such as "$SHARE is not accessible. You may not have
permissions to access this volume.
The network path was not found."
on WinXP or
"Unable to mount location
Failed to mount Windows share."
on Debian or Ubuntu. This last error message, by the way, is utterly useless.
If there is no indication of why the error arose then the message is no good
for debugging and the process might just as well fail silently.
These things make Samba effectively unable to serve a read-only globally
readable share. Sometimes user-level auth works, but not reliably- and
if I want user-level access I'd use sshfs anyway. When user-level auth
fails it gives the same cryptic error message as above.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: samba 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-15.65-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
BothFailedConnect: Yes
CheckboxSubmission: 71dcdffc611aa0b506f8503de91b9e83
CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
Date: Fri Aug 17 10:44:28 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
NmbdLog:
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SambaServerRegression: No
SmbConfIncluded: Yes
SmbLog:
SourcePackage: samba
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2012-02-19 (179 days ago)
** Affects: samba (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug natty
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Title:
samba changes in system-config-samba or /etc/smb.conf do not affect
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