[ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

Simon Greenwood sfgreenwood at gmail.com
Thu Mar 3 13:19:09 UTC 2011


On 3 March 2011 12:26, 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.
>
> Ok, I had a clean install of my other netbook, in Network, it has two
> Icons, one for Windows, one for Ubuntu, both of which I can click on, and
> open the directories I want. In the problem computer, Only the Windows Icon
> is there, and if clicked on it gives an error 'unable to mount'. I get the
> error 255 the same way as the OP gets it.
>
> Now, what you mentione above, how would I go about doing what you
> suggested, which I have added in red colour? I dont have the experience you
> have. I am a quick learner though, but I need to be shown.
>

Right, your computers are both detecting that you have a Windows network. I
*assume*, and I don't know this as I don't currently have an Ubuntu machine
to hand, that your netbook is detecting some kind of native Ubuntu share. In
the Windows network you should be able to see any Windows machines on your
network that have the same workgroup or Windows domain. I can't remember how
to set this up off the top of my head, but that is basically what you need
to do.


> 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.
>
>
> So, with the experience you have, what do you need to know, in order for
> you to make any form of judgement? I can only give information based on my
> knowledge, which isnt huge.
>
> I am just asking a questsion, I am not making any demands.
>
>
You're misunderstanding me here: I mean information relating to a solution
to the problem that you have, which I don't have, short of searching for it,
which you can do yourself. I'm not trying to fob you off, merely suggesting
that much of what you want to know will be available on the web and indeed
using man and info at the command line. The situation with smbtree is that
what is available is basically the man page. I'm not familiar with it and I
don't know even whether it's present in Ubuntu, but from the man page,
running 'smbtree -D <domain> would appear to give you a list of machines in
your domain if you have one.

As to your second response to this, would I be correct in assuming that you
have a dual booting machine? You will be able to see your Windows file
system in Ubuntu as Ubuntu mounts it, but you can't see your Ubuntu
partition in Windows as Windows can't see the Ubuntu filesystem. However,
Windows is not running when Ubuntu is running and as such would not be
visible on your network. Does that make sense?

s/

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