samba sharing

Fri Aug 3 14:05:03 UTC 2012

Hi Leslie Anne
We seem not only to share the frustrations with Samba but a past as 
well. I am very recently retired (this month) as the IT administrator of 
a high school's computers. The pension rules in this country (Israel) do 
not allow Town Councils to have people on their payroll after pension 
age. I was lucky to have my job extended by 2 years but now I am on 
pension. I hope to still find a job in my field and have actually been 
promised one. Anyway enough about that!
I have also had the Samba problem for years (sometimes it shares, 
sometimes not) and I have always thought the problem was my not 
configuring samba correctly. From what you say there is no "correct" way 
of configuring Samba - at least in Kubuntu??? My friends say that Ubuntu 
Samba sharing works for them but I really like KDE.
Anybody out there with solutions??

Errol

On 08/03/2012 04:24 PM, Leslie Anne Chatterton wrote:
> 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 <http://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
> <mailto: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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