File sharing setup

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Fri Dec 31 08:41:30 UTC 2010


On 30 December 2010 23:22, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
> On 12/30/2010 04:33 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 30 December 2010 17:54, Bill Stanley<bstanle at wowway.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> By the way, is there any advantage to installing the samba server on
>>> every machine or does this just complicate the setup?
>>
>> It won't do any harm if you install it on a machine that is not
>> required to serve files, but there is no point.  It will just sit
>> there doing nothing much, consuming a small amount of resources (I
>> guess), in the vain hope that it might be asked to do something at
>> some point.  I just install it on machines that I setup shares on.
>
>
> I now am able to share the document directory on computer two (the computer
> that had the ping problem) and access files on computer one. Computer two is
> now acting as a server.  However this is not exactly what I want. I want
> computer one to be the server since it is newer, faster and has a much
> larger hard drive.
>
> What is happening is this.  Smbfs has been installed on both computers.
> When I try yo set file sharing on the documents directory I get an error.
>
> 1. I click on places/home folder.  (it opens correctly)
> 2. I right-click on the documents folder and I choose the
>   "Sharing Options" item.
> 3. A dialog box opens (titled Folder Sharing) and I check the
>   "Share this folder" item.
> 4. I check the item saying "Allow others to create..."
>
> At this point everything seems OK.
>
> 5. I choose "Create Share" and I get an error.
>
> The line saying Share name  Documents now is displayed
> in red and and an error the message saying
>
> Failed to execute child process
> "testparm" (no such file or directory.

Google shows this could be a problem on Ubuntu 9.10.  Are you using
9.10?  If so have you made sure the system is up to date?  If so then
it might be worth looking through
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=&q=Failed+to+execute+child+process+%22testparm%22+%28no+such+file+or+director+samba&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_enGB320GB320&ie=UTF-8
to see if they are of any help.

Colin


>
> I tried the same with other directories and even tried
> creating a guest account and I get the same error.
>
> The directory definitely exists and has files in it.
> I thought the permissions were wrong but they appear to be correct.
> they are...
>
> Owner            bill
> Folder access    Create and delete files
> file access      --    NOTE: I tried to change this item and
>                       can't because it is a folder?
>
> The same permissions are set for GROUP and OTHERS.
>
> In short I have partial success but I can't make the new computer
> (comp one) the server.
>
>
>
>




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