samba sharing

Fri Aug 3 16:59:40 UTC 2012

Hi Mike,

This is good news, but it leaves me wondering if we are talking about the
same expectations from Samba.

What I am hoping for is a true peer to peer experience. I would like to be
able to share any file (and any printer) from any computer to all the rest.
I would like to have a "sharing" password that can be given to others do I
won't have to give out my personal password. As a long time net admin I
can't break myself of the habit of keeping passwords entirely to myself.

Is this what you are able to do? I'm not a novice and I don't want any
software to beat me. When I wrote my Windows 95 MS exam years ago I was
told that I had obtained a very high mark and I don't see why I shouldn't
become equally proficient in Kubuntu.

I do use Gadmin-samba but of give it up in a heartbeat if it odd messing
things up!

Best wishes,

Leslie Anne

PS: I retired 10 years ago but have managed to keep up to date in every way
but Samba.

Sent from my Nexus 7 Xoom running Jelly Bean
On 3 Aug 2012 10:11, "Mike McGinn" <mikemcginn at mcginnweb.net> 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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