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. I have an old sony vaio laptop with ext cdrom, running ubuntu. My wife has a lenovo laptop running xp and a dell desktop running vista home premium. Needless to say I have spent days, weeks, maybe months keeping everything working over the last several years with each upgrade - I am a ubuntu junky. The old desktop(Seanix) has been my file server for the rest of the house actually running xp with ubuntu 7.10(most recently) in a vmware virtual machine as the actual file server - lastest version all working well was gutsy. By working well, I mean every computer had access to our photos and music and movie collection with no password and my wife and I both had home folders available on all the machines with password protection. The only reason my server ran xp with virtual ubuntu was my old printer wouldn't work with ubuntu, nor would my scanner. My printer broke so I got a new one, I got a new scanner -carefully choosen to work with linux. So now is the time to get rid of the last of windows. I downloaded hardy heron i386 desktop and burned one cd. I installed it on my newer Dell desktop to try it out. Printer, scanner work and share. File sharing works out of the box. All looks great. So I use the same install cd on the Seanix, Install hardy heron on its own partition with a separate partition for the home folder. AND file sharing is broken. Non of the folders are shared properly, even the ubuntu machines don't share well any more. I got all of the error messages about net usershare = permission denied etc. I learned about net usershare.I edited my smb.conf(repeatedly) I did the logout/login and even reboot suggestions and still NO proper sharing. I tried all combinations of sharing options after R clicking nautilus folders. There seemed no rhyme or reason to what happened. Allow guest = still need password, no guest - everyone had access to my home folder.
It is interesting that some users install hardy and everything works out of the box. Other install hardy and have a nightmare with sharing. I have had both - the only difference being the machine that I installed hardy on. I am not a computer expert, but I hope that this information gets into the hands of someone who can make some sense of it. I have now reinstalled Gutsy on the Seanix - file server and my home network is back to HAPPY with all working well. I would be pleased to send any specific information about the machines, installation, or anything else if someone with the knowhow can help sort out this problem. I am now windows free but would like to have hardy running on all my machines. Thanks for your patience with this long post - I hope that it helps ubuntu and hardy improve. swells5 is online now Report Post Edit/Delete Message -- [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 Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
