samba sharing

[Leslie Anne Chatterton]

Hi Errol,

I share your frustration!

Your problem with Samba is one I am very familiar with. It may be related
to the security concerns that are rightly front and centre in Linux - or it
may be my own failure to adequately master the extensive documentation (or
incompetence on the part of some of those who write the code, but I'm not
in a position to judge that).

I have tried (and failed) off and on for five years to try and get Samba to
work consistently on my home network of sometimes up to 10 machines,
including Android phones and tablets. Distributing the internet has always
worked very smoothly. Sharing files, not so much. I've pretty much given up
in favour of sneakernet. That which worked so effortlessly in Windows seems
to be impossible in Kubuntu. (MS seems to be ruining even that in Win 7.)

When I asked for help, several times, in another 'buntu group the attitude
seemed to be "its not a feature I use" or "just type the IP address in" -
and even that didn't always work. I'm a great fan of Linux, but that
doesn't blind me to its shortcomings.

i have learned that Samba sometimes seems to spontaneously change the
smb.conf settings to remove the check mark from the requirement to use
encrypted encrypted passwords. This disables sharing with Windows. I've
also found that asking fora password is just another way of refusing
access. Sometimes just stopping and restarting the Samba service and
running winbindd (sic) as root gets it going. Using static IP's doesn't
seem to matter, in my limited experience. And the problem afflicts sharing
between Kubuntu systems too.

I just wish someone would fix Samba; simplify it greatly and make it really
easy to use. It suffers from a plague of "feature bloat". Many of us would
really appreciate a fresh approach for home users that may be a little less
secure but useful and foolproof. After all, we are not all running major
government departments, and if someone steals my vacation photos I'm not
going to go out of business! Wikileaks proved that...

Please understand, I'm not bashing Kubuntu or Linux. I use it daily and
love it. The only Windows I own came with the computer and I keep it for
the sake of the few bits of software that won't run under Wine and yet are
needed to set up or maintain things like eye.fi, Kobo etc. I detest the
predatory policies of MS and consider it a third rate operating system.

Many of us have been thoroughly frustrated by the problem of file sharing
for too long. Could we have a little help here?

Leslie Anne
Retired teacher of Computer Tech

Sent from my Nexus 7 tablet running Jelly Bean
On 3 Aug 2012 05:14, "Errol Sapir" <errol at tzora.co.il> wrote:

> Hi All
> Before I pose my problem with Samba I would like to show/point out a
> strange/funny activity on the Kubuntu forum site.
> The site is:
> http://www.kubuntuforums.net/**content.php?s=**
> 85a01516a6f19daf6d1150b684d239**d4<http://www.kubuntuforums.net/content.php?s=85a01516a6f19daf6d1150b684d239d4>
>
> On the right hand side is a column. In the fourth article in that column
> is the title "upgrading. Next to that word there is an "ant" or some black
> insect running around. In the beginning I thought it was my screen but I
> checked this out on another computer and saw the same "insect". If it was a
> bug I report it to bugzilla but it is only an insect :)
>
> Now for my Samba problem. I want to share photos with other people in my
> family who use Windows. They are all in the same workgroup. The photos I
> want to share are on a separate disk to my Kubuntu installation but are
> totally visible on my computer. The photos I want to share have been copied
> to a folder called "public". All the members of my family "see" my computer
> but are asked for a user name and password. When trying all known user nams
> and passwords nothing happens. They cannot see the folder I try to share.
> I have tried endless configurations that I saw on the internet or in
> youtube but nothing helps. Is there a howto to solve this problem for me
> using Kubuntu. Most of the other suggestions are for Ubuntu.
> By the way I can see shared files from the windows computers. They cannot
> see my shares.
> TIA
> Errol
>
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