samba sharing

[Errol Sapir]

Hi Mike
Is there "formula" you use? I have tried to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf by 
hand to no avail. I'd be happy to see you solution.
Errol

On 08/03/2012 05:09 PM, Mike McGinn wrote:
> I have been running Kubuntu and using Samba for over five years with no
> problems. I do not use the GUI tools to configure samba, I just edit
> /etc/samba/smb.cnf by hand.
>
> Mike
>
> On Friday, August 03, 2012 10:05:03 Errol Sapir wrote:
>> 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=__85a01516a6f19daf6d1150
>>>      b684d239__d4
>>>      <http://www.kubuntuforums.net/content.php?s=85a01516a6f19daf6d1150b6
>>>      84d239d4>
>>>
>>>      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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