[Bug 1299186] Re: Creating a Samba Share is not possible because "'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name "Everyone" to a SID. Access denied."

[Felix Wolters]

First of all, this is NOT a duplicate of
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1261873. I get the
same problem, while my [homes] section in smb.conf is ok, i.e. ALL the
lines there are commented out.

What happens on at least two independend installations of Trusty, one of
them a fresh one: Trying to share a folder in Nautilus for the first
time makes it automatically ask to install the samba package. This seems
to work, but then a simmilar dialogue appears asking to install "libpam-
smbpass", too, but this time the whole dialogue is greyed out and
clicking one of the two buttons (cancel or install) has no effect at
all. It can only be closed clicking the x button in the top corner.

Shares don't work then, as discribed before.

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Title:
  Creating a Samba Share is not possible because "'net usershare'
  returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name "Everyone"
  to a SID. Access denied."

Status in Samba:
  New
Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I am trying to create a smb Share on Ubuntu 14.04.

  I get the following Error Message and am not able to create a share.

  'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert
  name "Everyone" to a SID. Access denied.

  This is a new Ubuntu install and I have the exact same error on
  several machines.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: samba 2:4.1.3+dfsg-2ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-17.37-generic 3.13.6
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-17-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  BothFailedConnect: Yes
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri Mar 28 20:37:56 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-09 (78 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
  NmbdLog:
   
  SambaServerRegression: Yes
  SmbConfIncluded: Yes
  SourcePackage: samba
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-03-13 (15 days ago)

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