Samba Configuration tool broken

Michael Satterwhite michael at weblore.com
Tue Nov 14 17:42:44 UTC 2006


Richard Johnson wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 November 2006 10:46, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
>> I opened the KDE Samba configuration tool and found that it is broken.
>> The text at the top says to press the "Administrative Mode" button. That
>> makes sense ... EXCEPT THAT THERE IS NO ADMINISTRATIVE MODE BUTTON
>> ANYWHERE! I expanded the page full screen, I retracted the panel, the
>> button doesn't exist.
>>
>> Can anyone offer any help; I need to get Samba running under Edgy, but
>> the development team has released the configuration tool in a useless
>> state.
> 
> Try "Alt+i" and see if that opens the administration login. Also, if you press 
> and hold the Alt key and then left click the mous and drag the window up, you 
> still don't see an Administration button? This is on oddity w/o a doubt. I 
> can edit Samba and everything right here in KControl w/o any problems, unless 
> there is another Samba config tool somewhere else. I usually just edit 
> my /etc/samba/smb.conf file, so I am kind of dumb to the graphical 
> configuration for it.
> 
> 
Alt+i does nothing, but by using the alt key + drag, I was able to go
down far enough that I could see the administrative mode button; thanks.
Considering there is a lot of unused real estate at the bottom of the
screen, it's silly to require us to do that, but it's the least of my
problems with kubuntu 6.10.

Thanks again.
---Michael

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