[ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[Simon Greenwood]

On 3 March 2011 12:08, John MM <scoundrel50a at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/03/11 12:17, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>> OK, I've just had a look back for your original query, and it would appear
>> that you're trying to connect two machines running Ubuntu using Samba. The
>> people who replied suggested that you don't use Samba and use SSHFS instead,
>> which is built into Nautilus, the reason being that Samba is an
>> implementation of Microsoft's SMB networking protocol that is mostly reverse
>> engineered, and as such is not well documented and prone to bugs. I have no
>> other information than that which I looked up and found here:
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1026668, for which the remedy
>> appears to be add your user to the group 'sambashares', change the group
>> permission on the directory /var/lib/samba/usershares and possibly log in
>> and log out.
>>
>> In response to your second reply, yes, I probably did as it's something
>> that I know a bit about and have experience in similar problems. However, I
>> don't know anything about your problem so I am using Google and can only
>> give you the same response that Google would give you, which seems to be a
>> valid one.
>>
>> This is how mailing lists and message boards and the like work. People are
>> doing this because they have experience to offer, but only if it's relevant
>> to a problem. If they have no experience in a problem then there is no point
>> in trying to offer something other than known facts.
>>
>> One of the major things about Ubuntu is that there is a wealth of
>> information available and that other people may have had similar problems,
>> and the way to find that is to use the search engine of your choice. No-one
>> is obliged to give you an answer, but many will try to help within reason.
>>
>> s/
>>
>
> Ok, I appreciate that, but is very frustrating, when an op comes along with
> a similar problem, they get asked questions, given help, and none of this
> 'we help you because we can, and not because we have to attitude, I asked a
> question, the same as the op, I do feel like I am being pushed away.
> Esecially since a similar question is being put forward. Why are you
> bringing that up. What is the difference between the op asking a quesiton
> and me asking a question.
>
>
As far as I'm concerned, absolutely nothing. A similar question doesn't
necessarily have a similar answer. I have to point out that you were given a
solution, which was basically 'don't use samba', which I think is a
reasonable reply. I have to admit that I would automatically use samba in
such a situation myself as I have Linux machines, Windows machines and Macs
at home and it's really the only common protocol for sharing directories
across all three platforms, but for Ubuntu-only, there are other solutions.

s/

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