[Bug 592610] Re: Shared folders (through Samba) when following instructions sometimes does not work correctly

Fri May 17 21:39:38 UTC 2013

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:30 PM, julius von kohout <
592610 at bugs.launchpad.net> 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
>
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> 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
>
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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

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