[Bug 592610] Re: Shared folders (through Samba) when following instructions sometimes does not work correctly

Fri May 17 21:39:38 UTC 2013

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:30 PM, julius von kohout <
592610 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:

> are you referring to root share or usershare? root shares work properly
> and they are meant to be done by fiddling with smb.conf
>

I don't understand the distinction you're making.
This bug report was about attempting to share files in Nautilus- is that a
'root share' or a 'usershare'?

I don't have the old setup to test any more. I've since rebuilt the
computer and it now runs Debian Sid.
The samba shares are the same, but I did not try to use Nautilus to set
them up (I use xfce now).

What I was trying to accomplish was an anonymous public read-only share on
/media/share. It didn't work then (using Nautilus) and it doesn't work now
(having tried via editing smb.conf and using 'net usershare'). Samba
currently doesn't work at all: when I try to connect, I get error "could
not download share list from server".
When it does work (apparently at random), samba *always* prompts for a
username and password, regardless of configuration. When configured with
username and password, it sometimes works and sometimes does not.

The workaround cited in my report stopped working a day or so later. I
should have updated the report at that time, but the bug was marked
'invalid' anyway and I was too discouraged to mess with it any further. I
don't need samba for authenticated shares, sshfs works fine for that.

Thanks for the information and advice, I'm sorry that it doesn't apply more
directly to the situation at hand. I tried to test permissions for 'nobody'
on the shared directory, but I can't su to nobody. The directory's mode is
744 if that helps.

> user share via nautilus does not work properly
>
> private shares with password (its automatically your login password)
> work.
>
> public (guest) shares in the home directory dont work because samba
> cannot cd into /home because /home defaul permissons are to strict for
> "nobody" which is the guest/public samba user.
>
> i had a long talk with the maintainer of nautilus-share. there are
> several possible fixes.
>
> 1. set homedirectoy permissons for  "eveyone else" properly
> 2. add force user = owner of the /home/'your username' directoy to smb.con
> and map to guest = bad password
>
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>
> Title:
>   Shared folders (through Samba) when following instructions sometimes
>   does not work correctly
>
> Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   Binary package hint: samba
>
>   SUMMARY:
>
>   Following instructions to create a shared folder through Nautilus
>   (right-click > Sharing Options > Share this folder, and following the
>   subsequent prompts) does not always work.
>
>   For some people, it works immediately. For other people, a solution
>   has been found, which requires extra steps.
>
>   I found this a problem across a small network of five computers:
>   - one 64-bit Ubuntu (Lucid 10.04)
>   - two 32-bit Ubuntu (Lucid 10.04)
>   - one 32-bit Xubuntu (Lucid 10.04)
>   - one Windows Vista.
>   Every Ubuntu computer had the identical problem.
>
>   Other people have reported having this problem. Examples:
>   http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1491092
>   http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1502265
>
>   SYMPTOMS:
>
>   When it works, everything works properly and quickly. But when it does
>   not work...
>
>   The shares appear to be created correctly. Using terminal commands, it
>   is found that the machines do in fact connect. However, in Nautilus,
>   the network takes approximately a minute to respond and then fails to
>   find the shares.
>
>   DISCOVERED SOLUTION:
>
>   1. Add the following two lines under the [global] section in file
> /etc/smb.conf in every Ubuntu and Xubuntu machine:
>   os level = 33
>   name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins
>
>   2. Reboot.
>
>   3. Some people find that they have to experiment with the order of
>   items in "name resolve order".
>
>   EXTRA INFORMATION:
>
>   Package versions according to Synaptic (from the default repositories):
>   - samba 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3
>   - nautilus-share 0.7.2-12build1
>   - system-config-samba 1.2.63-0ubuntu4
>
>   REQUIRED ACTION:
>
>   Shared folders should work through the GUI without workarounds and
>   fiddling, just as Windows and Mac do. It should not be necessary to
>   get onto the forum, search, and mess with /etc/smb.conf. (It took over
>   a week for me to discover the answer.)
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
>   Package: samba 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
>   Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CheckboxSubmission: 5bf569339afeaacf6d8dcc180d0a06f0
>   CheckboxSystem: b1865df84255b8716d3bcc269ff410d1
>   Date: Fri Jun 11 11:33:18 2010
>   EcryptfsInUse: Yes
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64
> (20100429)
>   ProcEnviron:
>    PATH=(custom, user)
>    LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   RelatedPackageVersions:
>    nautilus 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
>    gvfs 1.6.1-0ubuntu1build1
>   SambaClientRegression: Yes
>   SourcePackage: samba
>
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